The activities of the Regional State Administrative Agencies will end at the end the year 2025. Most of our tasks will be transferred to the new Finnish Supervisory Agency, which will launch its operations on 1 January 2026. Tasks related to animal health and welfare and to food will be transferred to the Finnish Food Authority. Competition and consumer administration tasks will be transferred to the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority.
Read more: Reform of regional state administration
Regional State Administrative Agencies coordinate and monitor social and health care service providers and grant licences to private service providers.
Social services include:
We coordinate and supervise both public and private social service providers. The purpose of our coordination and supervision efforts is to ensure that social services are provided in line with the rules and regulations. Our job is to ensure that all customers are treated equally and to prevent violations of legal protection.
We coordinate and supervise services together with Valvira and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and, on the municipal level, with local authorities.
Private social service providers can apply for a licence through us. Private services complement the range of services provided by local authorities. The most common private social services are
Businesses: Licences, notices and applications - Social welfare and health care
Health care services include:
Our objective is to promote public health and well-being, develop social and health care services and prevent social exclusion. We coordinate and monitor both public and private health care service providers.
The Finnish health care system is based on partially government-funded public health care services. Local authorities are responsible for arranging health care services. They may produce the services independently or together with other local authorities. Local authorities may also buy health care services from other local authorities, organisations or private service providers.
The health care services that local authorities must provide are listed in the Health Care Act.
We bear the primary responsibility for monitoring private health care service providers in our area.
