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Left Alliance seeks no-confidence vote in Health Minister Juuso; coalition partners voice support

Communal Social Welfare and Health Care Services

Other municipalities using same salary system wreaking havoc for Helsinki city workers

HBL: East Uusimaa employers colluding to hold down social worker salaries

Publishing Newspapers

Authority finds child welfare units keep inadequate records on use of disciplinary measures

Childrens Ombudsman

Corrections of typos, wrong dates needed in some of Finland's EU Covid certificates

Ilkka Manninen (Author)

Yle investigation: Child welfare workers face verbal threats, physical violence

Childrens Ombudsman

Corona crisis increases need for child protection services, survey finds

Child Protection

Social barometer: People most in need left without help during pandemic

Report: 80% of child welfare workers face violence at work

Earnings-related unemployment allowances hit 20-year high

Social assistance

'Sote' reform proceeds to Parliament

Regional and Local Authorities

40% of municipalities say child welfare notices increased during pandemic

"Once you check in you don't check out" -- Finland's long haul foster care placements

Restaurants, nightclubs may face new opening hour restrictions

Fewer accidents but more domestic incidents during corona spring

Child welfare reports double in 10 years

Childrens Ombudsman

New social and health services reform proposal heads for review

Survey: Crisis worsened hunger, financial distress in Finland

What you need to know about Finland's child welfare system

Childrens Ombudsman

Yle investigates: One in ten foster homes in Finland has broken the law

The Finnish Broadcasting Company

Failed early intervention system behind rise in child welfare reports, care placements

Childrens Ombudsman

Police step up youth supervision as school term ends

Helsinki to hike wages for home care and social workers

Watchdog probes up to 15 deaths at senior care homes

Aging and Senior Citizens

Care home crisis talks produce 25-point improvement list as opposition parties table confidence motion

Opposition Party

Embattled CEO of elder care home quits over negligence reports

Child welfare notifications up 15 percent

Child Welfare Notifications

Child welfare helpline logs over 20k phone calls in 2017

Helpline and Hotline

Tuesday’s papers: Slippery roads, pop-up icebreakers, busy social workers and another tax deadline

Social worker: Emergency housing for homeless merely temporary solution

Finland formally apologises to children abused in care

Elderly residents could be housed alongside people with disabilities in care-home shakeup

Aging and Senior Citizens

Academic: Disputed theory used in child custody cases violates child protection law

Daily: Some 200 children in Vantaa lack child welfare case workers

Monday's papers: 'People have too many guns,' some child protection 'deplorable,' Helsinki Airport's luggage system malfunctions

Finnish child welfare: Child protection or "for profit" foster care?

Tell us your story: Foster care in Finland

Temporary Parenthood

Helsinki homeless rush to shelters as cold snap bites

Good Holiday Spirit campaign raises more than 1 million euros

Specialist: Universities must do more to tackle social worker crisis

Poverty and Social Security

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