The European Social Services Conference, the largest annual forum for public social services professionals in Europe, celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2022.  Over 15,000 delegates have joined us over the years to discuss the...

Public social services in all 27 EU member states not only have a commitment to break the cycle of disadvantage for vulnerable children, they have child protection at the core of their work. The European Social Network (ESN) has...

Since the Covid-19 crisis, one theme has become increasingly central to the European Social Network’s (ESN) work: resilience of social services. Alfonso Lara Montero, Chief Executive Officer of ESN told attendees at the opening of...

The right to quality social services is a key element of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR). But how to put this right to quality into practice? The European Social Network (ESN) discussed this question with EU decision...

The phrases ‘building back better’, but also ‘building back smarter or stronger’ and ‘levelling up’ have been prominent in calls for recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. They evoke the sentence of President Obama’s chief of staff...

Covid-19 has underlined the need for resilient and robust social services that ensure adequate support for the people who need them and our communities in general. Stability and continuity in the care sector, investment in...

As delegates gathered for the first in-person European Social Network (ESN) seminar in two years, which was organised in Ljubljana during the Slovenian presidency of the Council of the European Union, Dr Erio Ziglio, Honorary...

Covid-19 has shown the vulnerabilities of the long-term care sector, highlighting once again the key role of a skilled care workforce for a high quality and ongoing provision of services to people with long-term care needs. As we...