Central
The central Government is responsible for:
Social assistance:
- Ensuring funding for social assistance and welfare in the state budget;
- Creating social care and social rehabilitation institutions;
- Developing a State policy in the field of social services and social assistance; and
Family policy:
Social Security:
Legislation.
Local
Local authorities are responsible for:
Social assistance:
- Social assistance for poor families and socially vulnerable persons;
- Ensuring places for orphans and children without parental care in training and educational institutions;
- Providing overnight shelters for the homeless;
- The Local Government Social Service Office provides for social assistance.
Family policy:
- Ensuring places for elderly in old‑age homes;
- Family support and crisis centres for children, parents, pregnant women, and young mothers in need of specialised help; and
Registration of marriage, partnership or birth.
Responsible ministries/bodies
Ministry of Welfare
Social Integration State Agency
Sources:
Cab. Reg. No. 1517 - State Family Benefit (available in Latvian only)
Law on Social Security
Social Services and
Social Assistance Law
Ministry of Welfare
Social
Integration State Agency