{"title":"The Youth Guarantee and One‑Stop Guidance Centres as a social innovation and a policy implementation tool in Finland","authors":"Judit Csoba, S. Baines, K. Sorsa","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447347828.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447347828.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 5 introduces the Youth Guarantee and One-stop Guidance Centres, Finland. Youth Guarantee supports young people to gain a place in education and employment to prevent prolonged youth unemployment. The One-Stop-Guidance centres (OSGs) are a mechanism for Youth Guarantee implementation, giving young adults tools with which to improve their social situation, e.g. enhancing access to education and jobs. This is a social innovation that creates in a new form of public–private–people partnership with young people actively shaping their own future. OSG Centres invest in young people’s social capital. Turku OSG Centre, the focus of the case study, achieved its goal of empowering young people by involving them from the very beginning and throughout implementation.","PeriodicalId":432736,"journal":{"name":"Implementing Innovative Social Investment","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125985562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovative voluntary and public sector partnership for the reception and integration of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Gothenburg, Sweden","authors":"Inga Narbutaite Aflaki","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447347828.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447347828.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes and analyses an innovative form of partnership for the reception and integration of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Gothenburg, Sweden. The municipality of Gothenburg works with children who arrive in Sweden without adults. It does this through a form of collaborative partnership (idéburnaoffentligapartnerskap, IOP) with nine civil society organisations. Often housing and care are the only services asylum-seeking children receive through municipal or contracted service providers. The Gothenburg IOP provides children with a wide variety of complementary services including psychosocial counselling, access to Swedish social networks through volunteer ‘friend’ families, tailored leisure time activities and summer work practice opportunities. This IOP partnership is experimental in Swedish local public policy. It has been successful in increasing municipal capacities through new patterns of more equal and long-term relations with civil society.","PeriodicalId":432736,"journal":{"name":"Implementing Innovative Social Investment","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121421035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Investment in welfare: a sub-national perspective","authors":"S. Baines, A. Bassi, Judit Csoba, F. Sipos","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447347828.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447347828.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Taking a critical but sympathetic perspective, this chapter discusses recent debates around Social Investment as a new welfare paradigm. Scholarly and policy literature on Social Investment focus on aggregate effects and macro-comparative analysis with limited reference to local and micro level implementation and practice. Innovation is an essential element of Social Investment as social policies require constant adaptation to new challenges, yet literatures on Social Investment and social innovation rarely connect. This chapter sets the scene for the edited collection, highlighting the aim to advance empirical and conceptual insight into Social Investment from a social innovation and a sub national perspective. It briefly introduces in-depth, multi method case studies in ten EU countries of innovative, strategic approaches to delivering social investment policy at a sub national level.","PeriodicalId":432736,"journal":{"name":"Implementing Innovative Social Investment","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126587513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The creation of a socially diverse neighbourhood in Utrecht, the Netherlands","authors":"A. Fermin, Sandra Geelhoed, R. Gründemann","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv9hj7tc.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv9hj7tc.17","url":null,"abstract":"This edited collection brings regional and local realities to the forefront of social investment debates by showcasing successes, challenges and setbacks of Social Investment policies and services from ten European countries: Italy, UK, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Spain. It provides practical, accessible illustrations of good practice, routes to success, and lessons learned. The book is informed throughout by engagement with service users and local communities, and features many previously unheard voices including front-line workers, local decision makers, volunteers and beneficiaries.","PeriodicalId":432736,"journal":{"name":"Implementing Innovative Social Investment","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130996877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}