The new season of the Tunne lastensuojelu podcast gives a voice to young experience experts

3.11.2022 13.53Updated: 17.8.2023 7.12
Tunne lastensuojelu (‘Know Child Welfare’)

The themes of this season of Tunne lastensuojelu (‘Know Child Welfare’) podcast focus on experience experts’ and professionals’ views on child welfare and the support forms offered by child welfare. The mic will be handed over to young people from the experience expert group of Espoo’s Child Welfare who have personal experience with child welfare services.

“The new episodes of the Tunne lastensuojelu podcast are built on our young experience experts’ desire to influence matters. The young people wanted to make child welfare visible while also addressing, processing and removing the social stigmas related to child welfare. The positive feedback received by last year’s season of the Tunne lastensuojelu podcast also motivated the creators to continue. There is a clear demand for information about child welfare,” says Joni Jaakkola, expert of special services for families.

Each episode has its own theme that involves experience experts and a professional working with the theme in question. The episodes focus on matters such as what child welfare actually is, who works in child welfare and the clients’ perspective on all this. The discussion will also consider the perspective of professionals or parents. 

The creators have strived to design the episodes so that they suit all kinds of listeners. The episodes always offer some new information, regardless of how much the audience knows about child welfare. Whether the listeners are the young people or their families, child welfare clients or professionals of the field, this podcast is worth listening to.

The first episode of the City of Espoo Child Welfare’s podcast series “Tunne lastensuojelu” will be published on 4 November 2022 on the City of Espoo’s SoundCloud and Spotify accounts. We will publish one or two episodes per week. The Espoo Child Welfare’s development group of young experience experts, Espoon lastensuojelun Yhteiskehittäjät, was fully in charge of the podcast’s planning and implementation.

Listen to the first episode on

SoundCloud
Spotify

First episode in text format (in Finnish)

Further information

Expert of special services for families Joni Jaakkola joni.jaakkola@espoo.fi