Did the public policy of Santa Cruz de Lorica and Cereté (Córdoba, 2016-2019) provide for comprehensive family care?

Considering the implementation of public policy within the framework of Act 1361 of 2009 and Act 1857 of 2017, that regulate comprehensive family care, against the development plans of the municipalities of Santa Cruz de Lorica and Cereté, Córdoba (2016-2019), and using a socio-legal approach, this paper aims to analyze how these plans understood the concept of family in order to safeguard the so-called core of society. The findings indicate that the comprehensive care of the family, as considered in the Colombian Constitution, the law and the jurisprudence, is far from being implemented in the public policy of the aforementioned places. Consequently, upon analyzing the development plans in the light of a broad concept of family and the comprehensive care required by the referred laws, the authors concluded that it is necessary for the territorial public policy to be decentralized and to start advancing from the periphery inwards, while considering differences in culture, uses and practices, as well as political, economic and social features of the family.