State Office for Health and Social Affairs Berlin

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State Office for Health and Social Affairs Berlin
- LAGeSo -

Coat of arms of Berlin.svg
State level State of Berlin
position Higher regional authority
Business area Senate Department for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs
founding 1985 as State Office for Central Social Tasks,
since 1998 State Office for Health and Social Affairs
predecessor Provincial Supply Office
Headquarters Turmstrasse 21
Berlin-Moabit
Authority management Franz Allert , President of the State Office for Health and Social Affairs
Budget volume approx. 185.7 million EUR
(budget: 2019)
Web presence https://www.berlin.de/lageso/
be-Berlin logo of the authority in red.
Official logo of the authority
LAGeSo - House A on the site at Turmstrasse 21

The State Office for Health and Social Affairs ( LAGeSo ) is a higher regional authority of the State of Berlin . The authority takes on tasks in the areas of health care , supply and social services and is subordinate to the Senate Department for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs .

Foundation and history

The administration building was built in 1936–38 according to the plans of the architect Philip Schäfer (1885–1952) for the Gauamtsleitung of the NS-Volkswohlfahrt as a five-storey plastered building with a hipped roof . After the Second World War , on April 3, 1952, it became the House of War Victims Care. It later became the State Supply Office, which was converted into the State Office for Central Social Tasks in 1985. Since January 1st, 1998 it has been called the State Office for Health and Social Affairs Berlin.

tasks

The State Office for Health and Social Affairs takes on tasks in the areas of health, care and social services. Part of the LAGeSo are u. a. the State Examination Office for Health Professions, the Office of the Ethics Commission of the State of Berlin as well as the Insurance Office , the Central Medical Expert Office, the Integration Office and the Pension Office .

The LAGeSo provides services in accordance with the social compensation law , the determination and recognition of severe disabilities , benefits to companies and assistance for severely disabled people to participate in working life and is responsible for matters relating to academic and non-academic professions in the health sector. The LAGeSo also has numerous approval and monitoring tasks, including a. in the area of home and hospital supervision , in pharmacy and pharmaceuticals , in the area of genetic engineering and bathing waters and much more.

With effect from August 1, 2016, the State Office for Refugee Affairs (LAF) was created and the LAGeSo in Berlin took over the task of the central service center for asylum seekers.

Organization and structure

The LAGeSo is divided into five departments and 27 areas that are spatially separated at several locations in Berlin. The authority is headed and represented by Franz Allert , the President of the State Office.

The state office is structured as follows (as of 2020):

Department ZS - Central Service

Department I - Public Health Service and Medical Assessment

Department II - Social

Department III - Supply

Department IV - City-wide supervisory, regulatory and monitoring tasks in health and consumer protection

  • Health and social care professions, state examination office
  • Pharmacy and narcotics
  • Veterinary, food, genetic engineering
  • Medical devices
  • Office of the Ethics Commission of the State of Berli
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Hospital supervision, reproductive medicine

Inclusion taxi Berlin

Bow and car in red with the lettering Inklusionstaxi Berlin
Logo for the funding program inclusion taxi Berlin

The inclusion taxi is a funding program of the state of Berlin. In accordance with the guidelines of government policy 2016 - 2021, it is intended to promote the spontaneity of people with restricted mobility. The Sozialverband Deutschland eV initiated a corresponding project, in the course of which the first 5 inclusion taxis have been in use in Berlin since mid-2017.

On February 1, 2018, the responsible Senate Department for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs assigned the LAGeSo Berlin the task of laying the foundations for bringing a total of 250 inclusion taxis onto the streets of Berlin by the end of 2021. This includes both the development of a corresponding funding guideline and the creation of the organizational prerequisites for issuing appropriate funding . The funding guidelines required for this will be published in the fourth quarter of 2018. After their publication, the Berlin taxi companies can submit applications to the LAGeSo and actively contribute to an inclusive Berlin by providing inclusion taxis. Funding is provided for the acquisition of an inclusion taxi and the conversion of an existing taxi into an inclusion taxi. This new city-wide mobility offer should be available to all citizens and visitors of Berlin. The specialty of an inclusion taxi is that it has additional equipment options to improve mobility, but is regularly used and used as a taxi. The spontaneous ordering of a taxi with the option of seated transport for wheelchair users is a major advantage in addition to the spaciousness and multifunctionality.

Inclusion price Berlin

Since 2003, under the responsibility of the LAGeSo, the State of Berlin has been awarding the Berlin Inclusion Prize annually to employers in Berlin who train and employ severely disabled people in an exemplary manner. The state prize is awarded in the categories of "small business", "medium-sized company" and "large company." The prizes are of equal value and each includes a cash prize of € 10,000.

At sight

The LAGeSo is subordinate to the Senate Administration for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs . The Senate Department for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs exercises technical supervision over a wide range of city-wide tasks of the LAGeSo. These are: benefits according to social compensation law, the determination and recognition of severe disabilities, the integration office with its services to employers and assistance for people with disabilities to participate in working life, home supervision and the protected market segment (GMS).

In matters of health is Senate Department for Health, care and equality the responsible supervision.

The administration of the Senate Department for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination oversees general veterinary matters relating to the veterinary and food sectors as a whole .

criticism

Working conditions and asylum seekers (2015)

Waiting refugees in March 2016

In December 2015, the ver.di union criticized the working conditions of LAGeSo employees. The criticism is directed, on the one hand, against the inadequate staffing of the areas dealing with the care of refugees and, on the other hand, against the overtime incurred by employees, which cannot be reduced promptly. On the other hand, the union criticizes the lack of involvement of the employees in the planning of the process and in the creation of a new state office for refugee affairs. During the period of responsibility of 2015, Franz Allert was the President of the LAGeSo and Mario Czaja ( CDU ) was the supervisory Senator for Health and Social Affairs .

In Germany, the “LAGeSo” 2015 became a symbol for the problems with receiving and caring for refugees during the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 . Since the summer of 2015, more than a thousand refugees have been lining up in front of the LAGeS, both in the heat and in the rain.

McKinsey contract (2016)

In December 2016 it became known that the Berlin public prosecutor's office had initiated investigations against Björn Böhning , State Secretary and head of the Berlin Senate Chancellery , on suspicion of accepting benefits . After Böhning had concluded a pro bono contract for the free work of the McKinsey team in the LAGeSo, on January 5, 2016, Böhning signed a contract with McKinsey to advise on the development of a master plan "Integration and Security" closed with a gross fee of 238,000 euros. The Main Committee of the Berlin House of Representatives was only informed of this contract on February 9th. A formal contract was only signed at the beginning of March 2016, when the main work on the “Integration and Security” master plan had already been completed. It was only in mid-March 2016 that it became known that the former Berlin State Secretary and then Social Democrat Lutz Diwell , an expert in asylum law, was working on McKinsey's side on the master plan. In April 2016, the prosecutor received a criminal complaint about McKinsey's involvement in the master plan. There is a suspicion that the consulting firm McKinsey initially worked pro bono (free of charge) in the LAGeSo in order to then receive a paid job, here for the master plan “Integration and Security”.

Authority management (2015-2017)

From 2003 to 2015 Franz Allert was the head of office and president of the state office . After criticism of his office, he resigned on December 9, 2015. On January 14, 2016, Sebastian Muschter was temporarily appointed head of the agency for one year from the management consultancy McKinsey & Company from January 18. Four other McKinsey employees were supposed to support Muschter "in order to implement fundamental improvements to the structures and work processes in Lageso as quickly as possible." For this purpose, a pro bono contract was concluded, after the McKinsey team should work for the Senate free of charge. Muschter had been part of the McKinsey team at LAGeSo since September 2015, which worked on process optimization for refugee registration and administration.

In January 2017 Franz Allert took over the management of the state office again.

Web links

Commons : State Office for Health and Social Affairs (Berlin)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (PDF) Annual Report 2019. State Office for Health and Social Affairs, accessed on August 27, 2020 .
  2. ^ State Office for Health and Social Affairs (LAGeSo) - pension office. District office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, January 14, 2015 accessed on 27 August 2020 .
  3. ↑ State Office for Health and Social Affairs. July 16, 2014, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Organization chart. State Office for Health and Social Affairs Berlin, January 2020, accessed on February 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ (PDF) Organigram LAGeSO hrsg = State Office for Health and Social Affairs. March 1, 2020, accessed August 27, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Introduction of the inclusion taxi is being prepared. Press Office Senate Department for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs, May 15, 2018, accessed on October 25, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Responsible Senate administrations. State Office for Health and Social Affairs, February 19, 2018, accessed on August 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Ulrich Zawatka-Gerlach: Refugees in Berlin: Verdi criticizes conditions at the Lageso , Tagesspiegel, published on December 17, 2015
  9. ^ Lageso in Berlin: Where refugees stand in the rain at night . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 26, 2015, accessed on January 23, 2016.
  10. ^ Alleged death at the Lageso in Berlin: "Everything was invented" . In: Spiegel Online , January 27, 2016, accessed on January 29, 2016.
  11. ^ Investigations against the Berlin Senate Chancellery: What the Böhning case means for red-red-green , Der Tagesspiegel , December 1, 2016
  12. ↑ Berlin Refugee Office: McKinsey advisor becomes new Lageso boss. Der Spiegel from January 14, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2016
  13. ^ Frank Bachner: The return of Franz Allert meets with approval. In: tagesspiegel.de/. Tagesspiegel, December 17, 2016, accessed August 15, 2018 .

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