The Public Centre for Social Welfare (PCSW) Ghent 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
• 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

Responsibilities/ Services

• Providing social services
• Promotion of systemic change
• Role of the social worker
• Integration of technological tools
• Capacity building and training
• Professional training
• Training of social welfare workforce
• Research and development
• Maintaining networks for managers and social workers
• Management of public nursing homes and day centres for older people
• Home care services for older and dependent people
• Socio-educational services for children at risk of social exclusion
• Consulting services and specialised studies for local governments regarding facilities for older people
• Child protection
• Telecare
• Emotional support groups for family caregivers
• Programs for the prevention of addictions in young people
• Assistance in cases
• Support of energy poverty
• Financial
• Research/ identifying and monitoring of social problems
• Representing and defending interests of their members