Integration plans are a means of supporting immigrants’ integration and employment and helping them become equal members of society. This is the case at the initial stages of integration in particular. Integration plans are individualised plans prepared by immigrants in cooperation with local authorities (employment authority or municipality).
At the request of the employment authority or municipality, the wellbeing services county takes part in the preparation and review of the assessments of skills and the need for integration services and integration plans when promoting the immigrant’s integration calls for the coordination of services which these different authorities are responsible for organising. The responsibility for preparing, monitoring and updating the integration plan nonetheless rests with the employment authority or the municipality.
The integration plan addresses the following, agreed with the immigrant concerned:
- individualised integration and employment or entrepreneurship goals for the longer term and for the duration of the integration plan;
- services promoting integration, employment or entrepreneurship, health and wellbeing and civic skills;
- Finnish or Swedish language studies;
- participation in the activities of CSOs;
- guidance and advice.
The integration plan for an immigrant who is a jobseeker imposes the jobseeking obligation referred to in the Act on the Organisation of Employment Services. The plan also agrees on the monitoring of the realisation of the services.
However, the immigrant does not have a subjective right to the measures or services agreed in the plan unless this right arises from legislation other than the Integration Act.
Read more:
Act on the Promotion of Immigrant Integration
Act on the Organisation of Employment Services
