At a Committee of the Regions meeting earlier this year, Ana Paula Zacarias, Secretary of State of European Affairs in Portugal, which holds the rotating EU presidency and is hosting the Social Summit in Porto today, said that...

The Recovery Funds should respond to the strategic priorities set out by the European Commission, including employment and fighting poverty. However, an initial assessment of the submitted draft national recovery plans suggests...

According to the recently launched EU Green Paper on Aging, integration of care has the potential to contain the rising costs of health and social care. At the same, better service integration may help older people to remain...

The European Social Network (ESN) launched a Working Group on Social Services Digitalisation to identify ways in which digital advances have improved public social services across Europe and determine how they might take advantage...

The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken the societies and economies of the 27 EU Member States for more than a year, so it comes as welcome news that earlier this month, the European Commission announced that the recovery instrument...

ESN’s CEO, Alfonso Montero, speaking at the Council of Europe (CoE) Working Group on responses to violence against children, acknowledged that proper reporting is key to combating child abuse and expressed the readiness of ESN to...

An EU leaders’ social summit will take place in Porto on 7 and 8 May. Leaders of the European Council adopted the European Pillar of Social Rights at a similar summit in Gothenburg, Sweden in November 2017. Until now, the pillar...

Not enough local authorities or care providers in England are using available technology within social care to keep people safe, happy and healthy at home, according to the final report of a Commission exploring the issue. Led by...

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), every year at least 55 million children in Europe suffer some form of physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological violence (January 2020). Since public social services are...