The European Social Services Awards are organised by the European Social Network (ESN) to recognise excellence in social services, shining a spotlight on successful approaches and the extraordinary ongoing work done by those managing, planning and delivering public social services across Europe.
The Co-Production Forum was the 2019 edition of our annual seminar. We brought together over 130 people to share innovative practice and policy on co-production.
ESN is launching a working group which will run between 2019-2021 to examine the increasing role of technology in social services
The coordination of support between different sectors (social, education, health, police, employment, housing etc) to provide a more integrated response to care leavers is being increasingly recognised.
Join our free webinar to hear how people who use services can participate in the planning, delivery and evaluation of social services.
ESN’s European Semester Reference Group has met each year since 2014 to discuss challenges facing social services in Europe and the annual European Semester policy cycle with representatives from the European Commission. In 2019, the Reference Group will meet on 27 – 28 June in Brussels.
More than 600 stakeholders in the field of Social Services from across the world will come together at our 27thEuropean Social Services Conference in Milan on 5-7 June 2019.
In our second meeting we will discuss the provision of good quality long-term care to implement SDG 3 – ensure healthy lives and wellbeing.
In this European Parliament event, co-hosted by MEP Sofia Ribeiro, we explored how the future European Social Fund + can support the work of social services.
Professionals from social services across Europe met to present and discuss practices they are implementing to provide more integrated support to children in this first meeting of the Working Group.
ESN’s autumn seminar will examine strategies to support the social inclusion of the most vulnerable people in our societies on 5-6 November in Vienna, Austria.
ESN’s working group will support progress on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focused on the role of social services.
ESN's fifth meeting of the European Semester took place on 28-29 June 2018 in Brussels, Belgium
Invest - Innovate - Transform: Empowering people and communities
Building on the key messages from the 2017 conference, the 26th European Social Services Conference (ESSC) will explore how we can improve services by empowering the people and communities which are at the heart of social welfare.
ESN launched the first of a series of webinars, that will look into evidence-based policy and practice in Europe and US. In this webinar the focus was on 'Innovation in social services and the approches from Europe and the US.
ESN's annual seminar took place in Sweden and showed exemples of policy and practice for the social inclusion of migrant children and yung people.
The 25th anniversary edition of the European Social Services Conference (ESSC) took place in Valletta, Malta and was organised in cooperation with the Maltese Government and the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
ESN's Members' Forum took place in Brussels this April. It brought toghether our members from across Europe and beyond to set the agenda for the coming 3-4 years as we enter a new partnership with the European Commission.
In cooperation with the Slovak Presidency of the EU, ESN organised a seminar on the social service workforce, which brought together issues around service planning and coordination - from child protection through services for people with disabilities and older people.