Social Welfare and Health Care Department
The Social Welfare and Health Care department steers and supervises the activities of social welfare and health care professionals and operating units. The department manages matters related to the licences of national service providers and the steering of licence administration in private social welfare and health care. The department handles and resolves complaints and notifications concerning social welfare and health care professionals and organisations.
The department carries out systematic supervision in accordance with supervision programmes.
The Social welfare and health care department supervises the implementation of the essential requirements of customer and patient information systems and handles reports of significant deviations in customer and patient information systems.
The department is responsible for coordinating, implementing, and developing the preparation of the social and health care supervision program.
The department’s task is to ensure that the secure operating environments of the secondary use of social welfare and health data meet data protection and information security requirements.
The department's duties also include national supervision tasks in early childhood education and care, especially in matters of fundamental or broad scope.
The adoption board operates in connection with the Social welfare and health care department. It is a special expert, licensing and supervisory body for adoption matters that handles adoption licenses.
In addition, the supervisory board for social welfare and health care professionals operates in connection with the department. The supervisory board's tasks include deciding on matters relating to the limitation and revocation of the right to practice a profession, the withdrawal of the right to practice a profession, the prohibition of the use of a professional title, and the resumption of the aforementioned.
The Director of the department is Helena Mönttinen.
Department units and their tasks:
Licences unit, Head of Unit Eine Oinas-Soudunsaari
- Steering related to licensing administration of operators and the Regional State Administrative Agency
- Private social welfare and health care licenses when activities cover more than one Regional State Administrative Agency
- Maintenance and development of the social welfare and health care service providers’ register Valveri.
Service Organisation Supervision unit, Head of Unit Kirsti Tolonen
- Supervision of the activities of public and private social welfare and health care units
- Planned supervision in accordance with supervision programmes
- Supervision of the Finnish Defence Forces' health care, and prisoner health care
- National supervision of early childhood education and care
Service Provision Supervision unit, Head of Unit Kaisa Riala
- Supervision of the activities of public and private social welfare and health care units and social welfare and health care professionals, especially on the basis of complaints
- Supervision of secure operating environments for the secondary use of social welfare and health data
- Supervising the implementation of essential requirements in the client and patient information systems of social welfare and health care, and processing deviation reports
- Statements to authorities
Supervision of Professionals 1 unit, Head of Unit Mervi Koivuniemi
- Steering and supervision of social welfare and health care professionals
- Statements to authorities
Supervision of Professionals 2 unit, Head of Unit Kirsi Liukkonen
- Steering and supervision of social welfare and health care professionals
- Statements to authorities
- Organising the activities of the supervisory board for social welfare and health care professionals
The Adoption Board (independent authority), Head of Unit Irene Pärssinen-Hentula
- Duties and organisation of the Finnish Adoption Board (valvira.fi)