Gironde County Council is the legislative body of the province of Gironde, France.

Areas of Intervention

• Children at risk of social exclusion
• Older people 
• People with physical disabilities
• People with mental disabilities
• Mental health
• Public Health
• Social justice
• People who are socially vulnerable
• People in situations of difficulty or precarity
• Victims of domestic abuse
• Gender equality
• Counteracting and supporting victims of gender-based violence
• Migrants
• Social Integration
• Beneficiaries of minimum income
• Poverty
• Recipients of care
• Foster care

Responsibilities/ Services

• Providing social services
• Transformation of care models
• Promotion of systemic change
• Role of the social worker
• Issuing of guidelines and policies for the district’s councils
• Capacity building and training
• Professional training
• Training of social welfare workforce
• Research and development
• Conducting inspections
• Maintaining networks for managers and social workers
• Management of public nursing homes and day centres for older people
• Home care services for older people and dependent people
• Residential services for victims of gender-based violence
• Socio-educational services for children at risk of social exclusion
• Specialised intervention services as meeting points for children, victims of violence, and their families
• Consulting services and specialised studies for local governments regarding older people facilities
• Child protection
• Emotional support groups for family caregivers
• Programs for the prevention of addictions in young people
• Assistance in cases of energy poverty
• Financial support
• Social insurance
• fostering cooperation with non-governmental organisations and the promotion of social volunteering.
• Research/ identifying and monitoring of social problems
• Representing and defending interests of their members