National Coordinating Body – Hungary

• Name of the President: Ms.Krisztina Papp
• Number of members:
• Year when the Association was established:
• Year when the Association joined IFSW:
• Code of Ethics Hungarian Association of Social Workers
• Constitution Hungarian Association of Social Workers

• Acronym: 3SZ
• Adress: Liliom u. 8., Budapest, 1094 HUNGARY
• Email:
• Website: http://www.3sz.hu/
• Mobile: +36 30 768-4962 Tel.: +36 1 216-2866, +36 1 216-2867
• Facebook: Szociális Szakmai Szövetség

The Union of the Social Professional Organisations (3Sz) was established in 1995 in Budapest, Hungary as an umbrella organisation with the support of PHARE Social Policy Development Program. The aim was to strengthen the voice of civil society in Hungarian social-policy.

By now there are ten member organisations of the Union, through which we reach appr. 2000 people working on social field:

 Hilscher Rezső Society of Social Politics
 National Association of Regional Resource Centres
 Association of Hungarian Social Professional Training Schools and Teachers
(School Association)
 Hungarian Association of Family Support and Child Welfare Services
 The Hungarian Association of Social Workers
 National Association of Services for the Homeless
 Federation for Community Participation Development
 Association of Social Workers in Health Care Institutions
 Association of Farm-stead and Village Trustees
 Association of School Social Workers

3Sz continues to be open and welcomes all national networks of social organisations.

The main goals of the Union are:
· to contribute to the development of civil society by supporting the values of solidarity and equal opportunities;

• to help disseminating social policy knowledge and information on the social status of different groups of the society by publishing books, studies and research papers;
•  to contribute strengthening the influence of civil society in social issues;
• To assist the well-based decision making in social policy by co-operating – whenever it is possible – with national and local government agencies, providing background information and policy statements;
• To ensure continuous professional and civil control over social policy decisions and institutions;
• To help the process of self-organisation of the social profession by assisting the development of co-operation networks among different scientific, educational and practitioner workshops, contributing, at the same time, to strengthen the prestige of social profession;
• To represent and defend the interests of social profession by monitoring the work and life conditions of field-workers, by developing and monitoring training and operating standards, by developing the Code of Ethics for social work, and by preparing the establishment the chamber of social profession.

The Union plays an important role in renovating the social-political dialogue system with different actors of social provision. The think tank of the Union helps in developing the legal norm for the council of social politics in Hungary by working out background materials and commenting several professional concepts.

For developing these professional tasks, there have been installed professional councils within the Union. The aims of these professional councils are – besides supervising legal norms, counselling and monitoring – to create a forum for representatives of social professions for an exchange of opinions.

The Union has a wide range of experience regarding national and international projects and partnerships. Currently, we are running a project about supporting social workers in cases of violence in the family and child abuse. We are a member organisation in an international project about preventing early school-leaving and unemployment of young adults. Another project we participate in is about the protection of migrant employees.

Through our professional network we can reach the most authentic experts of
any kind of social provision or sociological research field.