The Handbook for Municipalities should help local actors with practical decisions about socially excluded localities in their town or municipality.

The Handbook has eight sections. The first one describes the issue of social exclusion itself, how to recognize it and how to react to it, what to do first and what later, with whom to cooperate, who to ask for help.The remaining seven sections focus on individual areas,– education, employment, housing, security, family, social services and indebtedness. 

The Handbook has been created as a set of methods and best practices, which the Agency for Social Inclusion developed and gathered since its founding by the government in 2008 and during its cooperation with 33 towns, municipalities and micro regions.

All measures include links to their practical implementation, detailed description of their implementation, funding options and legislative framework. 

The Handbook may serve as a manual for comprehensive social integration policy for municipality or 'only' as an inspiration for daily decisions.

Download the handbook here…