About the National Board of Social Services
The National Board of Social Services is an independent subdivision of The Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration.
Founded on January 1st 2007, the Board is located in Odense, Denmark, with units in Copenhagen, Esbjerg and AArhus. Through its two departments – the Department of Social Services and the Department known as VISO* – the Board aims to promote new development and initiatives in social services while also supporting and counselling local authorities in providing services to citizens, i.e. children, young people, socially marginalised groups, elderly and disabled.
The Danish Parliament decides the political social and welfare initiatives to be implemented in Denmark. The National Board of Social Services is charged with ensuring that such initiatives are put into practice in Denmark’s local authorities as intended by the Parliament and to counsel and assist local authorities. In addition, the Board offers specialist consultancy and specialist assessments in complicated and specialised individual cases in the field. In such cases, the Board also offers specialist consultancy to citizens.
The National Board of Social Services is responsible for a variety of other projects such as managing the Social Services Gateway ("Tilbudsportalen"), analyses concerning the Consolidation Act on Social Services and tasks related to follow-up and innovation in the field of specialist consultancy in its entirety.
The National Board of Social Services aspires to help securing the welfare of children, young people, socially marginalised groups, elderly and disabled, and to insure that related initiatives reflect scientific research and meet standards of efficiency and documentation.
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*VISO is the Danish abbreviation for "National Videns- og specialrådgivningsorganiation" which translates into the National Organisation for Knowledge and Specialist Consultancy.
