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November 2021


November 2021
Editorial
Building Back … But how? 

The phrases ‘building back better’, but also ‘building back smarter or stronger’ and ‘levelling up’ have been prominent in calls for recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. The recovery from the Covid-19 crisis has been hailed as the opportunity to use the disruption that the health crisis has brought about to channel investments towards more inclusive, resilient and environmentally friendly outcomes. But will the reality match the rhetoric?

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ESN organises a European Roundtable on quality care
Promoting access to Quality Social Care in Europe 

The right to quality social services is a key element of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR). But how to put this right to quality into practice? European Social Network (ESN) members discussed this question with EU decision makers, care quality experts, representatives of people using social services and social services professionals at a roundtable discussion on 16 November.

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Latest from ESN
Exchanging views on future resilient social services

Since the Covid-19 crisis, one theme has become increasingly central to the European Social Network’s (ESN) work: resilience of social services. Alfonso Lara Montero, Chief Executive Officer of ESN told attendees at the opening of ESN’s Members Forum 2021: “In the wake of the pandemic, resilience is key when looking at the ways in which social services are transforming how they work and service the population groups that use them.” 

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The European Social Services Conference 2022
Super Early-bird registration for ESSC 2022 opening soon!
 
The European Social Services Conference, the largest annual forum for public social services professionals in Europe, celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2022. Super early-bird registration, to join us to discuss what recovery from Covid-19 means for public social services across Europe, opens in early December.  Find out more about what you can expect at ESSC2022 in Hamburg between 8-10 June next year. 
Celebrate social services innovation and excellence
in Europe
Leaders come together to honour efforts to make social services more resilient for the future
 
The European Social Services Awards (ESSA) was launched three years ago by the European Social Network (ESN) to recognise innovation and excellence in social services shining a spotlight on successful new approaches and the extraordinary ongoing work done by social services professionals. This year’s edition is held under the theme Building Resilience in Social Services with the aim to explore and visualise how social services have responded to the crisis to ensure continuity and quality of care for the populations with whom they work on a daily basis.
European News
Implementing the Child Guarantee: ensuring the role of public social services 

Public social services in all 27 EU member states not only have a commitment to  break the cycle of disadvantage for vulnerable children, they have child protection at the core of their work. The European Social Network (ESN) has consistently emphasised the importance of public social services being included as a central partner in the building and implementation of the Child Guarantee, which aims to ensure every child in the EU at risk of poverty or social exclusion has access to the most basic of rights like healthcare and education. 

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