Desafios enfrentados para o fortalecimento fos conselhos tutelares à luz do estatuto da criança e do adolescente

Abstract

The tutelary council is an autonomous and non-jurisdictional body that integrates the municipal public administration, and its main objective is to ensure the rights of children and adolescents, in addition, it is composed of five counselors who are members of a collegiate, in this sense, the present study has as an objective to analyze the challenges faced for the strengthening of the tutelary councils in the light of the ECA. Therefore, the research proposes to analyze from the perception of some authors that approach the challenges that the tutelary councils face to perform their functions, as organ. The methodology used for the research was the dialectical method and the bibliographical and documentary research. Faced with the results obtained as a lack of theoretical-practical knowledge on the part of the tutelary counselors, precarious infrastructure of the tutelary councils and still lack of capacities, it was possible to conclude that there are fragilities regarding the action of the tutelary councilors according to what is foreseen in the ECA, and even though most counselors do not have sufficient preparation to take up their duties.