Adult social work and income support in the six largest cities

Description

**NOTE:** After the reform of social welfare and health care structures in 2023, responsibility for organising social welfare and health care services was transferred to the wellbeing services counties, and the Kuusikko cooperation ended in June 2023 for social welfare and health care services. For this reason, the dataset ends with 2021 data. Social assistance data for the six largest cities in 2005-2021. Social assistance covers both customers (households and persons) and costs. Since the beginning of the Kuusikko work, social assistance has been included in the comparisons. Operations started already in 1994 between three cities in the Helsinki metropolitan area, when the first comparison of the number of customers and costs of social assistance was made on the basis of 1993 data. The first five-city income support report was made from 1995 data when Turku and Tampere joined the work. The actual Kuusikko was reached in 2005, when Oulu also participated in income support comparisons. In 2011, the six cities published the first report on adult social work in the six largest cities. Adult social work reports have focused more on describing the operating environment, operating methods and customer base than other Kuusikko reports. More numerical data have also been added to the 2019 report. However, in the absence of a national definition of adult social work and due to municipality-specific differences in the structures and processes of adult social work, the information available is not always fully comparable between municipalities. Following the transfer of the granting and payment of basic social assistance to Kela in 2017, the reports on adult social work and social assistance previously published as separate reports have been merged into a single publication. The reports on adult social work and social assistance have been produced in cooperation with the expert working group on adult social work in the six largest cities. The six cities are made up of the six most populous cities in Finland. In order of population, the six cities include Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere, Vantaa, Oulu and Turku. The Kuusikko working groups compare the health and social services of cities, employment services and early childhood education and care services. Data on customer numbers, performances, personnel and costs are mainly compiled from municipalities' own information systems and financial statements. Urban experts agree on the most uniform definitions for data collection and implement the data collection in practice.

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  • adult-social-work
  • sosiaalipalvelut
  • sosiaalihuolto
  • social-welfare
  • income-support
  • social-services
  • utkomststöd
  • social-service
  • socialt-arbete-med-vuxna
  • aikuissosiaalityö
  • toimeentulotuki
  • työmarkkinatuki

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