The Ministry strives to ascertain an improved quality of life through the provision of sufficient social benefits for individuals and families in need; quality social welfare services and proper housing in order to boost the local communities. In...
The Malta Confederation of Women’s Organisations (MCWO) welcomed the launch of the maternity leave fund out of which employers will be refunded for payment of paid maternity leave. The MCWO said that this measure was long overdue and will eliminate the...
The government-appointed Pensions Strategy Group has published a document entitled ‘Strengthening the pension system’, which aims to provide a strategy for adequate and sustainable pensions in Malta.
Social protection expenditure ate up almost a third of the government's general expenditure during 2015, new figures released today have shown. The €1,147.7 million spent on social expenditure represented a shade above 30 per cent of all general...
This paper summarizes the findings of the UNRISD–Commonwealth Secretariat research project on Social Policy in Small States. The findings are based on the in-depth country studies of several small states and of the cross-cutting issues that they face. It...
Institutions and agencies involved: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, UNRISD
People on the waiting list for social housing and those benefiting from rent subsidy can get up to €100,000 to purchase their own property under the government's new 'social loans' scheme. The new government ‘social loans’ scheme will provide the option...
Bringing together thousands of senior professionals from across Europe for the past 25 years, the European Social Services Conference (ESSC) has long been pioneering the value of knowledge sharing to transform people’s lives. Over the years, thousands of...
A number of training programmes will be launched in the coming weeks for inmates, with the aim of improving their chances of integrating back into society after serving their time in prison. Addressing a press conference together with parliamentary...
Malta is sixth from the bottom when it comes to expenditure on social protection, official figures show. The figures also show that Malta’s spend actually decreased to 17.5 per cent in 2015 from the 19.3 per cent of GDP spent in 2010. The European Union’...
In 2016, social protection remained the core expenditure sector representing 31.6 per cent of total general government expenditure, followed by general public services, health and education, the NSO said today. Total general government expenditure...