Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and Social Cohesion

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Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and Social Cohesion
- SMS -

Coat of arms of the Free State of Saxony
State level country
position Supreme state authority
founding 1990
Headquarters Dresden
Authority management Petra Köpping ( SPD ), Minister of State
Budget volume 950.51 million euros (2016)
Web presence www.sms.sachsen.de

The Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and Social Cohesion ( SMS ), as the Ministry of Social Affairs, is a supreme state authority of the Free State of Saxony with its seat in the state capital Dresden . In his self-portrayal it is also called the Ministry of Society . It has existed since the Free State was re-established in 1990 and was called the Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection until 2019 . It is based at Albertstrasse  10 in Dresden's government district in the Inner Neustadt .

The office of State Minister is Petra Köpping ( SPD ), State Secretaries are Uwe Gaul and Dagmar Neukirch .

Headquarters of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Consumer Protection

Minister of State

organization structure

The Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection is divided into five departments :

  • Department 1: Political Affairs, Human Resources and Administration
  • Department 2: Health, Veterinary, Consumer Protection
  • Department 3: Social Security and Hospitals
  • Department 4: Youth, Family and Participation
  • Department 5: Saxon hospitals, psychiatric care, state examination office and special tasks

Subordinate business area

Authorities subordinate to the Ministry are:

  • State Investigation Institute Saxony (LUA)
  • State enterprise for metrology and calibration (SME)
  • Saxon state hospitals

tasks

Social affairs, health, youth and family

  • Social structure and social planning
  • social compensation, war victims' welfare
  • Promotion of children, young people, families, senior citizens and the disabled
  • social care
  • Welfare and collections
  • social services and institutions and social professions

social insurance

  • Law of statutory health, pension, accident and long-term care insurance
  • Statutory health insurance physician and statutory health insurance dentist law
  • Self-administration and budgetary law of the social security agencies
  • Vocational training in social security
  • Supervision of social security agencies
  • Adjustment of SED injustice

Health and Veterinary Services

  • Public health service
  • Hospital planning and financing
  • Psychiatry and the penal system
  • Pharmaceuticals and pharmacies
  • Health reporting
  • consumer health protection and food control
  • Animal welfare and disease control
  • Mortuary and funeral services
  • Health and veterinary professions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Budget 2015/2016. (PDF; 2.3  MB ) Master plan, budget law, master plans, overviews of budget plans. (No longer available online.) In: finanzen.sachsen.de. Saxon State Ministry of Finance (SMF), p. 19 , archived from the original on February 23, 2016 ; accessed on February 23, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Organization chart. (PDF; 62  kB ) In: sms.sachsen.de. Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection, February 22, 2016, accessed on February 23, 2016 .