Integrated social services for activating minimum income recipients: success factors and reform pathways

Conference

With the participation of two researchers of the Budapest Institute, the conference will present the results of an 18-month research project commissioned by DG Employment to explore drivers and barriers to effective reforms aiming to improve the coordination between employment and social services for minimum income recipients.

Based on detailed case studies and cost benefit analyses, the draft report of the project sharpens and extends the existing evidence on what drives successful reforms. It shows for example that, despite their mainly technical nature, ambitious integration reforms can get politicised, and therefore need broad political support.

The description of reform pathways and detailed recommendations can support the implementation of the Social Investment Package and the Council Recommendation on the labour market integration of the long-term unemployed.

The final conference 'Integrated social services for activating minimum income recipients: success factors and reform pathways' takes place on March 8, 2018 in the Crowne Plaza Brussels.

The executive summary and the draft report of the project are available at the conference website.

Crowne Plaza Brussels, Rue Gineste 3, Brussels