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Our Policy Briefing explains how social services can play an important role in ensuring good health and wellbeing at local level.
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The purpose of this toolkit is to provide guidance and practice examples on inclusion strategies of people furthest from the labour market for senior social services professionals who provide care for vulnerable people across Europe. The publication is based on the findings from a questionnaire shared with members of the European Social Network (ESN) working in the social inclusion of people furthest from the labour market, a literature review of the topic, and the discussions held at focus groups during ESN’s seminar ‘Inclusive Activation: Social inclusion of people furthest from the labour market’ in Vienna on 5-6 November 2018.
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The global agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provides social services an opportunity to emphasise their role related to people’s empowerment, upholding human rights, social justice, promoting social inclusion, and social development and investment.
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Based on the insights of social services we present cross-country analysis, country profiles, and policy recomandations from 24 Member States for the policy cycle of the 2019 European Semester.
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ESN presents the 2017 edition of our 'year-in-review' publications. Last year saw us come together with members and key stakeholders to exchange knowledge on issues such as unaccompanied migrants and transforming lives through innovation and technology.
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The purpose of this toolkit is to provide recommendations and examples of practice
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The report explores the issues that emerged as crucial for social services when supporting the integration of migrant children and young people in their host societies.
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This report is based on work by ESN's Reference Group on the European Semester in 2018. Overall, 21 EU countries are represented and each helped to give greater prominence to social issues and the challenges faced by social services in their locality.
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This toolkit provides recommendations and examples of innovative practice for senior professionals working in social services providing care for older people.
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ESN presents 2016 edition of our 'year-in-review' publication. A challenging year, 2016 saw us coming together with members & key stakeholders to exchange knowledge on issues like planning for the future social services workforce & unaccompanied minors.
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The objective of this report is to analyse key issues concerning the social services
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The study looks at how the principles on quality services in the European Commission's Recommendation Investing in children are implemented in practice in 14 countries. It is the result of a 3-year work with stakeholders in the field across Europe.
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This is an executive summary of ESN's 3-year study into children's services across Europe, 'Investing in Children's Services, Improving Outcomes'.
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With this paper, the European Social Network (ESN) submits its response to the consultation launched by the European Commission on the European Pillar of Social Rights in March 2016. It provides suggestions for successful monitoring and implementation.
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On 30-31 May 2016, ESN held it's publication launch event in Brussels to present the findings of our three-year study into children's services across Europe and to look at how the policy guidance from the Recommendation had been translated into practice.
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The European Social Network (ESN) has been observing through the lenses of its members the growing impact of the refugee crisis on public social services in their local communities and their organisations’ work.
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ESN and Vilans' work on 'Integrated Social Services in Europe' comprises a study on how local public services are working together to improve people's lives both across sectors (health,employment,social) and across Europe.
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This report is based on work by ESN's Reference Group on the European Semester in 2016. Overall, 25 EU countries are represented and each helped to give greater prominence to social issues and the challenges faced by social services in their locality.
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ESN presents our annual 'year in review' publication for 2015. This year saw great engagement from members in a number of key policy areas such as integrated services, evidence-based practice and active ageing.
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The European Social Network (ESN) launches its toolkit for planning and evaluating social services that is the result of work done with applied researchers and practitioners in various forums and activities throughout 2014 and 2015.
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This report is based on work by the ESN's Reference Group on the European Semester. 23 members from 22 EU countries have analysed the status of play and identified social policy priorities for 2016’s European
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This background paper addresses three main questions with the aim to present our overview of the social community teams in the Netherlands and their efficacy in combatting poverty in comparison to examples in other European countries.
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This paper addresses three main questions with the aim to present our view on the use of the Active Ageing Index at the local level in different European countries.
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This paper provides data and figures on how the crisis has had an impact on public social service provision from 2008 to 2014 in the following countries: Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Portugal and Spain.
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This paper builds on issues explored at the first meeting of the ESN Panel on Applied Evidence in Social Services; it starts by defining the concepts of evidence and impact and assesses what sort of impact may be relevant and for whom
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This ESN report features different approaches and models of social planning across Europe on a variety of topics, from data collection to building partnerships across sectors.
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This is a special issue of our annual review, bringing you highlights from 2014, but also sharing moments from ESN's first 15 years as the network for social services in Europe.
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ESN contributed to a peer review focused on evidence-based practice in the field of child protection and presented innovative practices from its members.
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ESN's research project aims to support the implementation of the European Recommendation 'Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage'. This is a collection of nine country profiles with preliminary findings from the research.
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This ESN report is based on views from members of our Reference Group on the European Semester; they analysed the NRPs and CSRs for 2014 and identified social policy priorities for the 2015 cycle.
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Drawing on our members’ expertise, ESN launches its official response to the European Commission’s consultation on the progress of the Europe 2020 Strategy, highlighting how to achieve a more social and more inclusive EU 2020.
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This paper addresses the requirements for driving forward social innovation in the public sector, and makes the case for the appropriateness, novelty and relevant evidence of needs, efficiency and effectiveness.
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This paper is based on a consultation with ESN with members on the implications of two new EU directives on public procurement and concessions for local authorities.
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ESN Autumn Seminar - Practical information
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This ESN Guideline looks at the rationale, regulations, management and new procedures promoted under the new EU Structural and Investment Funds programme for 2014-2020.
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The final paper in this series aims to outline the perceptions, challenges and opportunities for leadership and management in the social services sector drawing on established theories of public leadership and management and ESN members' experiences.
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The third paper in the series looks at the intersectoral cooperation between social and other public services, arguing that it often enables services to provide a person-centred approach and to respond more quickly and effectively to complex needs.
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