02:05 Jan 17 

I've just found this interesting link and thought it might help:
http://www.resourcecentre.org.uk/information/setting_up/info...

11:21 Feb 23, 2010 

for your much appreciated input. Here's a link to Law no. 383 of 7 December 2000. I meant to add this yesterday but didn't have time:

http://www.handylex.org/stato/l071200.shtml

22:44 Feb 22, 2010 

Most residential care institutions in the UK which provide residential social serivces are not state bodies, which leaves only the field worker services run by the state. The official term, written into EU and therefore also UK law for 'co-operativi sociali' is "social co-operatives". They provide social services. When I saw it happen, I didn't like it for exactly the same sort of reason you are posing. If you look at the list, many of the "organizzazioni di volontariato" will probably be community groups, but not all and many of the "enti di promozione sociale" will be community groups, but again not all. This is a classic example of the weak interpretation of the Sapir Whorf hypotheses where translation is impossilble without a page of explanatory footnotes for each page of translation, because of social differences (in this case, just a question of different laws with different classification systems".

18:09 Feb 22, 2010 

mmm... I get your point. I'm still not convinced by social groups tho' as it immediately brings to mind social clubs... how about ' social assistance organizations' ?? Social service groups wouldn't really work either as this would suggest state bodies exclusively.

13:17 Feb 22, 2010 

I used to work in the sector too a long time ago, however "i loro coordinamenti o federazion" would include national organisations, while I would immediatlely understand community groups as local, groups that work in local communities, very much grass roots. This class would seem to be a catch-all to include any organisations/groups not included in all the other