National Languages Board

Based on the Act on Wellbeing Services Counties, the National Languages Board’s duty is to:

1. review and assess how the County Council’s decisions will affect the practical realisation of linguistic rights and make statements concerning this;
2. review, assess and determine the need for services offered in minority language in the Wellbeing Services County and monitor the availability and quality of these services;
3. make proposals to the County Board based on these reviews, assessments and monitoring on measures for developing the services and service chains of the language minority and on personnel language competence requirements and for developing the personnel’s language competence;
4. in a bilingual Wellbeing Services County with Swedish as a minority language, make proposals regarding the cooperation and division of work between bilingual wellbeing services counties as the content of the agreement determined in section 39 of the Act of organising healthcare and social services, give a statement of this agreement to the County Council and monitor the agreement’s realisation.

Additionally, the National Languages Board’s duty is to:

5. support the development of Swedish-speaking healthcare and social services in the entire country,
6. support the development of Swedish-speaking healthcare and social services in the Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County.

Administrative regulations 14.12.2022 § 53 (external link)in Finnish

Meeting materials (in Finnish and Swedish)(external link)

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