There are a number of services in Finland to help families and which are open for all children and families living in Finland. Help for more serious problems is provided by child welfare and social services, described in detail below.
All parents face occasional difficulties when raising their children. Problems can often be solved with the support of family and friends. In Finland, it is also society’s duty to help parents and children.
Each municipality has a social office or social services providing various services and benefits for the municipality residents. The social office or social services are…
Preventive child welfare means such measures and services provided by different parties to secure children’s growth, development and wellbeing and to support parenting. Special support…
A professional foster home is a form of family care and refers to a home that is authorised to operate as a foster home as…
Shelters help victims of domestic violence or those experiencing a threat of domestic violence. One can go to a shelter alone or with children at…
Involuntary taking into care means a situation, in which children of 12 years of age or more or guardians oppose taking into care. Then the…
Emergency social services attends to the urgent need for help at all hours and weekdays. Contact information for the emergency social services can be found…
Placement as a support measure in open care means a situation in which a child or the entire family is placed away from their home…
Placement means that a child is placed in alternative care, in other words that a child’s care and raising is arranged away from the child’s…