O programa Criança Feliz na Paraíba: limites e possibilidades

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the implementation process of the Programa Criança Feliz, in the state of Paraíba, seeking to analyze its consequences in the care-educating relationship of children aged zero to three years old. As an instrument of social policies instituted through Decree n. 8,869, dated 10/05/2016, but amended by Decree No. 9,579, dated 11/22/2018, the Happy Child Program uses intersectorality as a strategy to achieve its goals. However, since its creation, there has been much criticism from the workers of the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS), supported by the Front in Defense of SUAS and Social Security – a collective formed by workers, users and scholars of social assistance. From a methodological point of view, it is a qualitative, documentary and exploratory research, which uses a dialectical perspective to support knowledge and analysis of concrete social and educational realities. The research concludes, mainly, that: the Happy Child Program negatively compromises professionalization and social rights, integrating the process of retrogression of social and political achievements that began before in the conservative and ultraliberal government instituted after the 2016 coup.