THE FACES BEHIND THE DATA Many people need help at some point in their lives and the ability of a country to protect and assist vulnerable citizens is a prime metric of the value of that society. With social care being a high priority in the Netherlands, this care organisation is tasked to provide first-point-of-contact assistance to residents, creating social infrastructures around vulnerable people. The company aims to intervene quickly in order to prevent social problems from getting any worse, providing a lot of help through day care centres in the city’s poorer neighbourhoods. Yet it must do so within tight financial boundaries. When welfare services became the responsibility of individual municipalities, rather than central government, it was this organisation that realis

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