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
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