ESN Members in Practice
Meet our Members
Meet our Members
Together with our Members we are determined to provide quality public social services to all and especially to help improve the lives of the most vulnerable in our societies across Europe.
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Luc KUPERS, Director, Social Services of Ghent, Belgium. The true level of development in a society is measured by the efforts done for the poor, the weaker, the elderly and the most vulnerable groups that face challenges of integration into the labour maker and society. |
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Alexis JAY, Chief Inspector, Social Work Inspection Agency, Scotland, UK. It is my hope that with the coordination and leadership from ESN we are able to drive up standards for all who need to use social services. |
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Daniel LOPEZ MUNOZ, Director, Social Services for Social Inclusion, Galicia, Spain. “Managing infrastructures or commerce can be perfectly done in a cold, sterile, distant way. But social services are about people - vulnerable people. A touch of passion is essential.” |
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Lotta Persson, Chair, Swedish Association of Social Directors, Botkyrka, Sweden. We are working to raise quality, and we are beginning to measure the results on a small scale to see what works and what doesn’t. |
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Stefan SPATZ, Deputy Director, Social Services Department, Stuttgart, Germany Increasingly, our future challenges will be to ensure participation of senior citizens in social life through specifically targeted leisure time, mobility, education and lifestyle programmes as well as counseling and support for problematic issues. |
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Ágnes SIMONYI, Advisor, Institute of Social Policy and Labour, Hungary. Issues of social policy should not be linked just to the four-year mandate of the government, there should be continuity and the consensus of professional policy making and this is what the work of our institute is about. |
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Reinhard POHLMANN, Director, Older People's Services, Dortmund, Germany To create structures, you need political decisions. When local government supports ideas and people get better support – that is my ultimate satisfaction. But, sometimes it takes years to achieve that. |
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Aleksandra CALOSEVIC, Head, Social Innovation Fund, Serbia. Have faith in yourselves and never doubt that a small group of people or even a single individual can make a difference. I feel that what I do on a daily basis does make a difference, and this is what inspires me. |
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Ingrid ŠTEGMANOVA, Head, External Relations Department, Union of Towns and Municipalities, Czech Republic. I feel that what I do on a daily basis does make a difference, and this is what inspires me. Read ESN's interview with Ingrid.
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