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Over the last 20 years or more, the ways in which public action is organized have been subject to change. The development of contracts between the State, its various services & the local authorities is a very good example of this process. On the one hand, the State imposes ways of working & the framework within which the negotiations are to take place, on the other, it leaves the choice of the problems to be dealt with & their resolution to local "community workers." Could this be conceived of as a sort of "laissez-faire" which will inevitably lead to the fragmentation of welfare policy? The setting up of the local "Contrat Educatif" in Toulouse, shows that quite the opposite is true, & that the State's initiatives bring about the reorganization of territorial relations on a political & institutional level, leading to important changes in the way public policy is carried out. On a more general level, this research investigates the setting up, the basic principles & the impact of a "non directive" implementation of welfare action. The ways in which this type of policy is administered is an extremely fruitful subject for research. Adapted from the source document.