the 2022 European Independent Living Day is dedicated to young disabled people. How are ESN members supporting autonomy and independence?

As EU national governments begin to submit their plans for the implementation of the European Child Guarantee, ESN reiterates the need to involve everyone concerned, including children themselves and public social services...

Find out the winners of the 2021 European Social Services Awards, announced on 1 April in Brussels.

Last month, I spoke at a session on technology in social services at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress, where I learnt about Ari, a robot developed by social services in Barcelona that supports older people in their own homes to...

How ESN members are responding the humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. 

The European Social Network (ESN) has responded to the European Commission’s call for evidence on minimum income programmes. ESN argues that minimum income programmes should provide an appropriate floor and be accompanied by a...

The European Social Network (ESN) welcomes the European Commission’s initiative to develop a European Care Strategy, which will hopefully respond to the challenges of ageing and rising care needs. ESN has made a number of...

With registrations closing soon, find out why you should be part of the 30th European Social Services Conference in Hamburg in June.

The European Social Network (ESN)’s Annual Review highlights our activities in 2021 which were mainly focused on recovery from Covid-19, with the concept of resilience becoming increasingly central to our work and that of our...

One year after national governments submitted their plans to recover from Covid-19 , the European Commission has just adopted the first annual report assessing their implementation.