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At ESN's council meeting in early February 2018, we asked to our most engaged members about social investment and what it means to them and their countries and organisations. This was their response. This video was used for the open plenary at the 2018 European Social Services Conference.

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‘We hear Christian Fillet, Carlos Santos Guerrero and Antonio Mazzarotto speak about what social investment means for social services in their country. Kate Bogh, Hera Osk Einarsdóttir and Claudette Abela Baldacchino tell us about how social services contribute to empower people and communities.

Christian Fillet, Public Centre for Social Welfare (PCSW)- Bruges: ‘Social investment is a hot issue I think, all across Europe and also in Belgium we are investing in people, we are investing in new asylum seekers to try and integrate them, and we see also a new wave to work more in neighbourhoods’.

Carlos Santos Guerrero, Regional Government of Galicia, Spain: ‘Social investment means that social services should not be just regarded as an expenditure, they have to look for quality, they have to look for their impact of their outcomes.’

Antonio Mazzarotto, Manager of Social Policies at the Lazio Region, Italy: All that social services do to allow a vulnerable family, a vulnerable person to get out of a state of need for assistance and realise his/her full autonomy and full inclusion’.

How can social services contribute to empower people and communities?

Kate Bogh, Director of Favrskov Municipality, Denmark: ‘I believe that everyone feels it is important that you are contributing to society and therefore, it is important to us and it is important to people who cannot contribute can get help for example via job training or through coping strategies.

Hera Osk Einarsdóttir, Association of Social Directors in Iceland: ‘ We can do that with support and with intervention and also collaboration between service providers and conversation with users’.

Claudette Abela Baldacchino, Foundation for Social Welfare Services, Malta: ‘The government in Malta is investing in Social Services and also our foundation is investing in people’.

Welcome to the 26th edition of the European Social Services Conference

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