Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Soziales, Jugend und Familie Außenst. Osnabrück

What Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Soziales, Jugend und Familie Außenst. Osnabrück does

The Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Soziales, Jugend und Familie Außenstelle Osnabrück is a regional branch office of the Lower Saxony state agency of the same name, headquartered in Hildesheim. The Landesamt is a statutory government authority (Landesamt) operating under the jurisdiction of the Ministry for Social Affairs, Labour, Health and Equality of Lower Saxony, delivering social welfare, disability, youth welfare, family, and health-administration services across the entire federal state. Its remit covers disability recognition and integration assistance under SGB IX/XII and the Bundesteilhabegesetz (BTHG), child and youth welfare under SGB VIII and the Kinder- und Jugendstärkungsgesetz (KJSG), social compensation under SGB XIV, and licensing/supervision of healthcare facilities and care homes. The Osnabrück branch serves the Osnabrück region as one of seven regional Außenstellen (Hildesheim, Braunschweig, Hannover, Lüneburg, Oldenburg, Osnabrück, Verden).

The agency's core operational technology is B.E.Ni (Bedarfsermittlungsinstrument Niedersachsen), a standardized needs-assessment methodology introduced in 2020 for integration assistance planning for people with disabilities. It also operates the Fachberatung Hören, Sprache und Sehen — specialist advisory services for children with hearing, speech, and visual impairments — in coordination with all 47 municipal Gesundheitsämter and approximately 45 Sprachheilkindergärten across the state. Under its organizational umbrella sit five Landesbildungszentren (four LBZH for hearing-impaired persons in Braunschweig, Hildesheim, Oldenburg, Osnabrück; one LBZB for blind persons in Hannover) providing specialized education and early intervention.

The entity is funded entirely through the state budget of Lower Saxony; there is no commercial pricing or revenue model. Services are delivered at no direct charge to citizens under statutory frameworks (SGB I–XIV, BTHG, KJSG), with statutory co-payments applying in defined cases. Distribution occurs through direct in-person access at branch offices, the state service portal (service.niedersachsen.de), co-located Sprechtage with municipal health offices, the Landesbildungszentren network, and institutional channels (SpraKiKon, Unitagung, Verdentagung conferences; the Newsletter JiN; social media channels). Customer segments comprise people with disabilities and their families, children and youth in welfare situations, families requiring support, healthcare providers and care facilities, internationally trained healthcare professionals, and victims of violent crime or social hardship.

Name

Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Soziales, Jugend und Familie Außenst. Osnabrück

Legal name

Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Soziales, Jugend und Familie

Website

https://soziales.niedersachsen.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Soziales, Jugend und Familie is a state government agency of Lower Saxony delivering statutory social welfare, disability, youth, and family services across seven regional branches and five specialized education centers, serving residents of the state.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Social Welfare Services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Child and Youth Services (62411), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (62412)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

State/Provincial Human Services & Benefits Administration (Welfare, Disability, Child & Family) (BPAIABAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Disability Benefits Administration (BPAIAKAC), Disability Services & Independent Living Support (BPAGAEAG), Disability Services & Assistive Solutions (Accessibility, Assistive Tech) (BPAGALAM), Child Welfare, Foster Care & Adoption Services (BPAGAEAE)

Keywords

• Social welfare services
• Youth welfare services
• Disability support services
• Integration assistance
• State education centers

Headquarters

HQ city

Hildesheim

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices12 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. State Government Budget Funding: The Landesamt is funded entirely through the public budget of the State of Lower Saxony. It operates as a non-revenue-generating government authority providing statutory social services, disability support, youth welfare, and health-related administrative services to residents of Lower Saxony.

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The agency delivers statutory social welfare services for the German state of Lower Saxony, including disability recognition and integration assistance, child and youth welfare, family support, care home supervision, healthcare professional licensing, victim compensation under SGB XIV, and specialized advisory services for children with hearing, speech, and visual impairments. It operates through seven regional branch offices and five state education centers, serving residents of Lower Saxony under legal frameworks including SGB I–XIV, BTHG, and KJSG.

Product overview

Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Soziales, Jugend und Familie is a German state government agency (Landesamt) providing social services, youth welfare, and family support across Lower Saxony. Rather than a commercial product portfolio, the agency offers government services including advisory services (Fachberatung Hören, Sprache und Sehen) for hearing, speech, and vision impairments; integration assistance for people with disabilities via the B.E.Ni needs assessment instrument; state youth office (Landesjugendamt) functions; early intervention services through state education centers (Landesbildungszentren); and training programs (Verdentagung, SpraKiKon, Unitagung) for professionals. Services are provided across multiple locations including Hildesheim (headquarters), Braunschweig, Hannover, Lüneburg, Oldenburg, Osnabrück, and Verden.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Fachberatung Hören, Sprache und Sehen: Specialist advisory service for hearing, language and vision impairments
• Landesbildungszentren (LBZ)
• Integrationsamt
• Landesjugendamt
• B.E.Ni (Bedarfsermittlungsinstrument Niedersachsen)

Products and services

• Fachberatung Hören, Sprache und Sehen

Quantifiable outcome

• All 47 Gesundheitsämter in Lower Saxony have access to specialized Fachberatung services through the centralized Fachberatung Hören, Sprache und Sehen
• +2 more outcomes

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• 47 municipal health offices (Gesundheitsämter) across Lower SaxonycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Fachberatung Hören, Sprache und Sehen of the Landesamt operates in close cooperation with all 47 municipal health offices (Gesundheitsämter) across Lower Saxony's districts and independent cities. Sprechtage (consultation days) for children with hearing, speech, or visual impairments are conducted jointly at local health offices, which organize the appointments in coordination with the state-level Fachberatung. This partnership is the primary delivery mechanism for the advisory services.
• Welfare associations (Wohlfahrtsverbände) and integration assistance providerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Landesamt cooperates extensively with welfare associations (Wohlfahrtsverbände) and integration assistance service providers (Leistungserbringer) in the delivery of integration assistance (Eingliederungshilfe), care services, and child welfare services. These organizations deliver services on behalf of or in coordination with the Landesamt under statutory frameworks.
• Ministry for Social Affairs, Labour, Health and Equality of Lower Saxony (MS Niedersachsen)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Landesamt operates under the oversight of the Ministry for Social Affairs, Labour, Health and Equality of Lower Saxony (Ministerium für Soziales, Arbeit, Gesundheit und Gleichstellung). The ministry sets policy direction and the Landesamt implements statutory social services at the state level.
• Landesbildungszentren (state education centers) — LBZH Braunschweig, LBZH Hildesheim, LBZH Oldenburg, LBZH Osnabrück, LBZB HannovercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFour Landesbildungszentren für Hörgeschädigte (state education centers for hearing-impaired persons) in Braunschweig, Hildesheim, Oldenburg, and Osnabrück, plus the Landesbildungszentrum für Blinde in Hannover, operate under the organizational umbrella of the Landesamt. These centers provide specialized educational, advisory, and early intervention services for people with sensory disabilities.
• Regionale Beratungs- und Unterstützungszentren für Inklusive Schule (RZI)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe RZI (Regional Advisory and Support Centers for Inclusive Schooling) collaborate with the Landesamt's Fachberatung on matters of inclusion and special educational support (sonderpädagogische Unterstützung) for children with visual impairments in schools, particularly regarding the deployment of Mobile Services.
• Sprachheilkindergärten (speech therapy kindergartens) and Kindergärten für Hörgeschädigte across Lower SaxonycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerApproximately 45 speech therapy kindergartens and kindergartens for hearing-impaired children operate across Lower Saxony under the professional guidance and supervision of the Fachberatung Hören, Sprache und Sehen. The annual SpraKiKon conference is a key collaboration platform. The Fachberatung conducts approval procedures and ongoing professional support for these specialized facilities.
• Berufsverband deutscher Hörgeschädigtenpädagogen (B-D-H)minorOthersListed as a recommended external resource/link on the Fachberatung's downloads page, supporting professionals working with hearing-impaired individuals.
• Sprachheilzentren (SHZ) — Wilhelmshaven, Werscherberg, Bad SalzdetfurthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThree specialized speech therapy centers (Sprachheilzentren) in Lower Saxony — SHZ Wilhelmshaven, SHZ Werscherberg, and SHZ Bad Salzdetfurth — operate in coordination with the Fachberatung. The Fachberatung conducts needs assessments and issues referrals for children requiring the intensive, residential or semi-residential speech therapy services these centers provide.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Aktion Mensch: Major nonprofit funding organization supporting disability inclusion, integration assistance, and accessibility projects in Germany. Comparable target population (people with disabilities) but operates via grantmaking rather than statutory administration, making it an adjacent ecosystem player.

Direct peers

• Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR): The Rhineland counterpart to LWL, delivering integration assistance, disability services, and youth welfare in the Rhineland region of NRW. Comparable statutory remit and direct delivery of social-law services under SGB frameworks.
• Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL): Municipal-level regional authority in North Rhine-Westphalia with statutory responsibility for disability integration assistance (Eingliederungshilfe) under SGB IX/XII and BTHG. Direct peer in disability support service delivery and oversight in another state.
• Hessisches Landesamt für Soziales und Versorgung: Hesse's state social affairs and benefits administration. Analogous Landesamt with comparable social-law scope, integration assistance authority, and ministry-supervised regional service delivery.
• Landesamt für Soziales, Jugend und Versorgung Rheinland-Pfalz: Rhineland-Palatinate's state social/youth/care authority. Structurally identical to the Niedersachsen Landesamt—state-level agency delivering social, youth, family, and disability services under SGB I–XII across a single Bundesland.
• Bayerisches Landesamt für Pflege: Bavaria's state-level social/care authority, a directly analogous Landesamt structure for social and care services in another German Bundesland. Comparable statutory mandate under SGB frameworks, regional branch office model, and ministry oversight arrangement.

Regional players

• Senatsverwaltung für Bildung, Jugend und Familie (Berlin): Berlin's state-level authority for youth and family services. Comparable Landesamt-style mandate for youth welfare and family policy, though operating under city-state governance rather than a Flächenland structure.

Broad incumbents

• Bundesamt für Familie und zivilgesellschaftliche Aufgaben (BAFzA): Federal-level agency implementing national family and civic engagement programs. Broader scope than the Niedersachsen Landesamt but serves as the federal counterpart for family policy, child welfare promotion, and victim compensation frameworks that overlap with the Landesamt's mandate.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/soziales.niedersachsen
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nieders%C3%A4chsisches-landesamt-f%C3%BCr-soziales-jugend-und-familie-au%C3%9Fenst.-osnabr%C3%BCck
• Instagraminstagram.com/soziales.niedersachsen

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

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