Quality and accessibility of social services
Ensuring that high-quality social services of general interest, such as social security schemes, employment and training services or social housing, are accessible even to the most vulnerable and marginalised people within the EU is key to combating poverty and social exclusion.
A number of Peer Reviews have therefore been set up to promote the exchange of good practices between Member States on improving the quality of such services.
But Member States also face the challenge of adapting their social services of general interest to the major economic and societal changes that are taking place today, such as the ageing of the population, while at the same time facing financial constraints.
The Peer Review thus also aims to help countries to engage in this modernisation process while maintaining high standards of quality and accessibility.
On the topic
Peer Reviews
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Combining choice, quality and equity in social services
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Access to care and health status inequalities in a context of healthcare reform
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Achieving excellence in social service provision
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Closing the gap - in search for ways to deal with expanding care needs and limited resources
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Cost containment in the pharmaceutical sector: Innovative approaches to contracting while ensuring fair access to drugs
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The future of social services of general interest
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ACCESS: Cottonera Community Resource Centre
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Freedom of choice and dignity for the elderly
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National strategy to prevent and tackle homelessness
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Integrated Services in Rehabilitation - On Coordination of Organisation and Financing
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Preventing and tackling homelessness
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Field social work programmes in neighbourhoods threatened by social exclusion
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Basic social services in rural settlements - Village and remote homestead community care-giving
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Local development agreements as a tool to stop segregation in vulnerable metropolitan areas
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The Rough Sleepers Unit (England)
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Clearing: assistance for young people with special needs in their transition from school to working life
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Experiments in social activation (1996-2001)
