The City of Reykjavik provides a wide range of services with the main objective to help improve the quality of life of the City's inhabitants. Under the field, some 120 sites, 64 of which provide 24-hour services, are covered.

Main Areas of Work

• Children and young people
• Children at risk of social exclusion
• Homeless
• Elderly
• People with addiction
• 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
• Role of the social worker 
• Integration of technological tools
• Issuing of guidelines and policies for the district’s councils
• Professional training
• Training of social welfare workforce
• Conducting inspections
• Management of public nursing homes and day centres for the elderly
• Home care services for the elderly and dependent people
• Socio-educational services for children at risk of social exclusion
• Child protection
• Financial support
• Research/ identifying and monitoring of social problems