The Public Centre for Social Welfare (PCSW) Bruges is a public organisation that provides individuals and families with the municipal statutory social services.

Areas of Intervention

• Children and young people
• Children at risk of social exclusion
• Homeless
• Older people 
• People with addiction
• People with physical disabilities
• People with mental disabilities
• Public Health
• People who are socially vulnerable
• People in situations of difficulty or precarity
• Victims of domestic abuse
• Migrants
• Social Integration
• Beneficiaries of minimum income
• Poverty
• Recipients of care

Responsibilities/ Services

• Providing social services
• Management of public nursing homes and day centres for older people 
• Home care services for older people  and dependent people
• Socio-educational services for children at risk of social exclusion
• Consulting services and specialised studies for local governments regarding older people  facilities
• Child protection
• Programs for the prevention of addictions in young people
• Assistance in cases
• Support of energy poverty
• Financial
• Research/ identifying and monitoring of social problems