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Christiaan van Veen is the Director of the Digital Welfare States and Human Rights Project at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, which is based at New York University School of Law. Van Veen's work focuses on the impact of state digitalization on human rights, including in the area of social protection and assistance. Read more Meet our speakers: Christiaan van Veen

We are living in extraordinary times. Health and Social Services have been at the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic. Social Care providers will need to prepare and protect their workforces while providing vital services to their most vulnerable citizens. Read more Discover our Workshops: Building resilience, accelerating innovation and empowering the future workforce to improve the quality and impact of social services

ESN partner Raisoft, in collaboration with interRAI, has developed and digitalised a tool to identify and assess particularly vulnerable social groups during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Read more New tool for large-scale identification of COVID-19 risk groups

It is with great regret that we have to postpone the ESSC to 30 June - 2 July 2021. Read more European Social Services Conference postponed to 2021

A strong social services workforce is key to support people to live in their communities. Read more A strong social workforce for the future of community care

Safeguarding is about preventing harm happening to people using social services and responding effectively when it occurs. Read more Introducing our parallel discussion: Safeguarding in Community Care – Protecting people to stay safe