Turku’s welfare plan for 2026–2029 outlines how the city will promote the wellbeing, health and safety of its residents and strengthen the conditions for a good everyday life, prevention, participation and equality.
At its meeting on 15 June, the Turku City Council considered the plan Turku creates a good life – plan for promoting wellbeing, health and safety 2026–2029. This is the City’s statutory plan, bringing together the key goals and solutions for promoting the wellbeing, health and safety of Turku residents.
– The welfare plan helps to guide the City’s shared work so that every Turku resident has the best possible conditions for a good and safe everyday life. It is especially important to strengthen preventive work and support those residents and areas where wellbeing challenges accumulate, says Deputy Mayor Mirka Muukkonen.
Welfare is built in everyday life
The plan is based on the idea that wellbeing is built in everyday life: in pleasant environments and through opportunities to participate, learn, be physically active, enjoy hobbies, work and live safely. The welfare plan is linked to the Turku City Strategy, the Mayor’s Programme and the City’s management and steering system. It guides cross-sectoral cooperation and integrates the promotion of wellbeing into the annual planning, development and decision-making of the service areas.
The welfare plan has three priorities: enabling a good everyday life, strengthening participation and community, and supporting a safe, smooth and predictable everyday life. In practice, this means supporting the growth and study ability of children and young people, as well as promoting the work ability and functional capacity of adults. The plan strengthens early support and preventive work and targets solutions especially at the residents and areas where the need for support is greatest. In addition, it brings together several previously separate statutory plans related to areas such as equality and non-discrimination, the wellbeing of children and young people, the wellbeing of older people, preventive substance abuse work, mental wellbeing, and the promotion of wellbeing that supports integration.
Wellbeing is created through cooperation between residents, organisations, companies, the wellbeing services county and City actors. The preparation of the plan has emphasised a shared situational picture, residents’ participation and cooperation between different actors. Progress towards the goals will be monitored using wellbeing data and indicators, so that measures can be targeted more effectively at the phenomena, population groups and areas where the need is greatest. Practical measures will be specified annually in the work of the service areas, and their progress will be monitored as part of operational and financial planning.