2020-03-27
The City of Espoo has compiled brief coronavirus instructions and information about the effects on the city’s operations in different languages. More information at www.espoo.fi/coronavirus
Culture, art and sports bring joy, wellbeing and a wealth of new experiences. Their significance is highlighted especially in challenging times.The City of Espoo encourages residents to enjoy the wide variety of online culture and sports services offered by the city and its partners. More services will be launched during spring.
2020-03-26
The coronavirus is spreading in Finland and around the world. Therefore, we have to reduce the operations of maternity and child health clinics starting from this week.
Now that many public organisations have stopped serving customers in person or at least limited their face-to-face services, some citizens face a new challenge: how to run everyday errands from home if one has never done so before? We put together some information on the kinds of errands you can take care of using different devices.
2020-03-25
The City of Espoo will start offering snack bags to comprehensive school pupils and upper secondary school students who are currently studying from home and need lunch. The first snack bags will be handed out on Monday, 30 March 2020. In some Finnish-speaking schools, only few pupils attend contact teaching therefore There are some changes to contact teaching locations.
Family Law Services will reduce its operations due to the coronavirus epidemic. We now provide fewer non-urgent services, and we will offer them by telephone and remotely whenever possible.
Our new Facebook series will take a look at the way this exceptional situation affects the everyday work of Service Centre employees and the services themselves. Our first guest is Service Centre Coordinator Suvi Jäntti from the Iso Omena Service Centre.
2020-03-24
The coronavirus is spreading in Finland and around the world. To prevent it from spreading further, we are reducing non-urgent physiotherapy, occupational therapy and psychologists’ services for children. We will hold as many appointments as we can either remotely or by phone.
The City of Espoo will start offering snack bags to comprehensive school pupils and upper secondary school students who are currently studying from home and need lunch. We will send guardians and upper secondary school students a Wilma message to find out if they are interested in picking up snack bags.
2020-03-23
The Finnish Government has issued guidelines that state that persons over 70 years of age must avoid contact with other persons. The Government strongly recommends that they should avoid crowds and public places. The purpose of this recommendation is to protect elderly people from contracting the coronavirus. Nestori – Guidance and Service Counselling for Senior Citizens will help you run ne...
We will combine the counselling and guidance services provided by Family Social Work and Family Counselling Centres starting from 23 March 2020. The best way to contact us is to use the Get help form. Due to the coronavirus situation, we mainly serve our clients by phone.
Social counsellors and family workers are currently very busy. We will contact all new clients within approximately two weeks after they first contacted us.
2020-03-20
Comprehensive school pupils in grades 1–3 may come to school and attend contact teaching starting from Monday, 23 March, regardless of their parents’ professions. It is still recommended to keep children at home and have them study from home. In other words, you do not have to send your children to school.
Nestori – Guidance and Service Counselling for Senior Citizens serves from Monday to Friday between 8:00 and 16:00 by phone, tel. 09 816 33 333. We are extending our opening hours to be able to better answer questions concerning services for the elderly.
Schools, universities of applied sciences and other educational institutions have been closed, and contact teaching has been suspended. We have set up three helplines where public health nurses give school and student health care clients information and advice. Please read more information
City management informs about the coronavirus situation in Espoo on Monday 23 March at 17:30 – watch live at www.mediaserver.fi/live/espoo
Espoo’s Event and Cultural Services will cancel all events until further notice because of the coronavirus.
2020-03-18
The Matinkylä Service Point, which is located at the Iso Omena Service Centre, will be closed as of Wednesday, 1 April 2020. The City of Espoo has already closed the Leppävaara and Espoonlahti Service Points. The other three Service Points and online channels of the City of Espoo will continue to serve customers as usual.
For now, Business Espoo serves entrepreneurs and companies remotely and by phone. All events this spring have been cancelled. We will hold some of the events as online events instead.
2020-03-17
This news article will be updated to include the latest information about coronavirus preparedness in early childhood education and at schools.