Integration

The responsibility for providing integration services was transferred from the central government to municipalities at the beginning of 2025. Statutory tasks related to promoting integration – previously the responsibility of 15 TE Offices – are now handled by 45 employment areas or individual municipalities. Municipalities are also responsible, for example, for the integration services of immigrants who are outside the workforce.

As part of the national steering of the decentralised service system, the KEHA Centre has been given a statutory task to assess and centrally monitor the effectiveness of integration services offered to jobseekers and the activities of the authorities that provide those services. Based on assessments and monitoring, the KEHA Centre produces data for the Ministry of Employment and the Economy and for the municipalities and employment areas responsible for providing integration services. This is done to support national and regional decision-making.

National annual report on integration services

The KEHA Centre has a statutory task to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of integration services.

Each year, the KEHA Centre produces a national analysis of

• the implementation of integration services and the key indicators for resourcing,
• the efficiency, use, availability, quality and impact of integration services and
• immigrants’ service paths and their effectiveness.

Going forward, the KEHA Centre will also monitor key indicators for the integration of immigrants outside the workforce. The indicators for the integration of immigrants outside the workforce are based on the Koto-AJ customer information system, which has been released at the beginning of 2025. The KEHA Centre monitors phenomenon-based integration through – for example – various indicator databases.