City of Espoo, Finland Finnish Education Unit
Kaisu Toivonen, Director of Education Merja von Schantz, Head of Student Welfare Services Olli Poutiainen, Principal of Vanttilan koulu The Helsinki metropolitan area and Uusimaa projects
Programme to address reform in child and family services (LAPE)
The best for the child – Together we are more (Espoo, Helsinki, Kauniainen, Kerava, Kirkkonummi, Vantaa)
LAPE Uusimaa – Together we are more (Other municipalities of the region Uusimaa)
22.11.2018 2 When pupils are feeling well, they learn better! According to the School Health Promotion study conducted by the National Institute for Health and Welfare, most pupils and students in Espoo feel well, like school, have a hobby and at least one friend. Growing welfare differences and accumulation of disadvantage raise concern. Many pupils from different cultural backgrounds who have moved to Espoo have experienced loneliness and bullying, even though school bullying as a phenomenon has decreased. The study clearly indicated that discriminatory bullying occurs during free time and on social media. Finland, new regions and Uusimaa
Population in Finland 5.5 million
Uusimaa 1 668 053 inhabitants
Helsinki metropolitan area 1.2 million
22.11.2018 6 Espoo is the second-largest city in Finland
165 islands 95 lakes 27.8.1458 279,044* 58 km of coastline Area 528 km² Date of birth Population A natural city
7.2% 76.8% City of Espoo (ca. 14,000*), Swedish Fortum, Nokia, Orion, Tapiola, Finnish Neste, Aalto University, VTT Other 16% Largest employers
Over 120 different mother tongues
A good place to live, learn, work and do business in. 22.11.2018 7 Future municipality in 2021?
The roles of a future municipality
Developer and partner role Business and employment role Educational role
Involvement and community Municipal self- role government role Welfare role
Living environment developer role
22.11.2018 8 Regional government, health and social services reform: the objectives for state, provinces and municipalities (Hanna Tainio, Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities)
Municipalities • Regional participation, democracy Know-how and education and business communities • Sports and Culture • Youth services Health and welfare • Local business policy • Land use and construction Regions • Social and health care • Public employment and • Rescue Services business services • Environmental Health Care • Transport network and regional • Regional Development public transport network • Guidance of regional land use and planning construction • Development of the countryside and substitutes for holidays State • Maintenance and development of a • Tasks of national security constitutionally governed state • National and international • Securing and evaluation of tasks fundamental rights • Public guardianship
22.11.2018 9 The objectives of the new municipality
Promoting welfare Promoting regional Promoting vitality and health identity and democracy
Educational and Cultural Technical services, e.g. Services, e.g. • Land policy • Early childhood education • City planning and land use • Pre-primary education, planning basic education, voluntary • Traffic, public transportation additional basic education, and high ways morning and afternoon • Water supply activities • Waste disposal • General upper secondary • Energy supply and distribution education General sectors, e.g. • Building control • Vocational education, • Promoting business • Rental housing of the vocational adult education • Supporting municipality • Non-formal adult education, associations and general culture activities, civic activity Other services, e.g theatres, ochestras, • Services promoting • Country side services museums employment • Obligation to employ long-term • Sports, youth • Energy supply unemployd persons • Library adn information • Ports services • Construction and maintenance of information networks
22.11.2018 10 Development entity of the Program to address reform in child and family services (LAPE)
LAPE – Regional development project
Network for low-threshold services Support for families - Early childhood model education and Pre-primary Culture based (Ministry of social affairs care and school on facts and and health) supporting the children’s rights child’s welfare 17 regions and Helsinki (Ministry of (Ministry of social Metropolitan area Education and affairs and health) Culture)
10 regions and 12 regions and Helsinki Helsinki Metropolitan area Metropolitan area
Network for special support services Developing of Special and intensified services (Ministry of social affairs and health)
15 regions and Helsinki Metropolitan area 22.11.2018 11 Services for children and young people Special care services Child protection services
Services for persons with disabilities
Psychiatric special health care Intensive support for families: Regional youth services (Vamos, Information flow, - Social work and guidance Kipinä) consultation, co- - Family help and domestic Girls’ house operation services FRC’s safe house for - Family counselling young people HYKS Varhain - Children’s therapy and Multisectoral Targeted basic assessment and rehabilitation services Somatic special services - Health care services operational health care - Maternity and child care cooperation clinics’ psychology services Immigrant services Outpatient clinic for - Support and help when young people Individual pupil welfare divorcing/separating Health care Intensive support for families: centre Guidance - Maternity clinics and child Universal basic care clinics services Cultural Services Sports services - Dental care - Meeting places and open Youth services Morning and afternoon activities pre-primary care - Services of associations and the church General, intensified and School and pupil/ Communal pupil/student special support student health services welfare Pre-primary education, basic education, secondary education