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Sosiaalitaito Oy
Welcome to the website of Sosiaalitaito Oy - Socialkompetens Ab, the Centre of Expertise on Social Welfare in Western and Central Uusimaa area.
The Centre of Expertise on Social Welfare is a network organisation whose role is to promote and ensure basic and specialist expertise in social welfare. The Centre’s objective is to establish well-functioning cooperation structures in the region and to develop, through these structures, specialist and expert services that will be transferred within the community of social welfare practitioners, education professionals and scholars.
The work of the regional centres of expertise on social welfare covers, in the broad sense, all work carried out by municipal organisations in the social welfare sector; it thus incorporates both social work and other social services.
The Centre of Expertise on Social Welfare in Western and Central Uusimaa area is part of an expertise network that became statutory in Finland in 2002. It comprises eight regional centres of expertise and one centre of expertise that provides services to all Swedish-language municipalities in Finland. The network’s operations are government-subsidised.
Sosiaalitaito Oy works within the the social welfare sector
• carrying out development work and participating in cooperation
• conducting, supporting, coordinating and following up research
• acting as an educational coordinator
• coordinating and producing expert services
The Centre focuses, in particular, on the development of
• family social work and support services for families
• welfare services for alcoholics and drug abusers
• participating in developing information technology for social services
The key parties involved in Sosiaalitaito are universities, polytechnics, municipalities and organisations (especially the so-called third sector, NGOs). Sosiaalitaito was founded in December 2001 and it is owned by 19 municipalities located in Western and Central Uusimaa. Sosiaalitaito has a board of its own and gets part of its financial resources from the owner municipalities and the Finnish government
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