The Social Services Administration
Service include preventive social measures, allocation of transfer payments, such as disability pensions and financial support in special cases.
Also, the administration handles the placing of children and young people in residential care, service offers for the disabled, the mentally ill and alcohol and drug abusers, as well as various social housing services.
Facts about the Social Services Administration
Core services: Disabilities, mental illness, abuse, homelessness, alcohol treatment, social housing services, placing of children and young people in residential care, disability pensions, non-residential folk high schools and preventive social measures.
Mayor: Karina Vestergård Madsen
Committee: Social services committee
Employees: 6,000
Budget: 7 billion kroner
Main professions: Social pedagogues, pedagogues, social workers, social and health assistants
CONTACT
The Social Services Administration
Bernstorffsgade 17