Laste Hoolekande Asutus Lootus

Name

Laste Hoolekande Asutus Lootus

Legal name

Laste Hoolekande Asutus Lootus

Website

https://slootus.ee

Company type

Private

Founded year

1969

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Child Welfare Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Child Care Services (62441), Individual and Family Services (6241), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (624120)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Child Day Care Services (8351), Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050)

akta.pro primary industry

Homeless, Foster Care & Highly Mobile Youth Education Services (EDAJAEAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Local Public Health & Human Services Administration (BPAIACAK), Live-In Childcare for Multiple Children (Sibling/Family Care) (HSAAAEAH)

Keywords

• Child welfare services
• Foster care services
• Social rehabilitation
• Day care services
• Support person services

Headquarters

HQ city

Sillamäe

HQ country

Estonia

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Government Municipal Funding: The institution is funded through Sillamäe Linnavalitsus (Sillamäe City Government) municipal budget as a city-administered institution.
2. Social Rehabilitation Services (State-Funded): Social rehabilitation services are funded by Sotsiaalkindlustusamet (Social Insurance Board), which takes over payment obligation for up to 2 years per client. The state covers the cost based on individual rehabilitation plans.
3. Fee-Based Services: The institution provides paid services (tasulised teenused) with published price lists. These include childcare, support person services, and other welfare services for which fees are charged.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Laste Hoolekande Asutus Lootus is a municipal child welfare institution providing substitute home care (asendushooldusteenus) for up to 23 orphans and children without parental care across four family units, plus multi-disciplinary social rehabilitation services, day-center child care (lapsehoiuteenus), support person services (tugiisiku teenus), aftercare for young adults leaving care (järelhooldusteenus), and social transport services. Services are delivered in Sillamäe, Ida-Viru County, Estonia, under the administration of Sillamäe City Government and funded through municipal budget, the Estonian Social Insurance Board, and fee-based paid services.

Product overview

Laste Hoolekande Asutus Lootus is a child welfare institution offering an integrated portfolio of social services. The core offering is a 23-bed family-system foster home (Asendushooldusteenus) operating four family units with 24/7 supervision. Complementing this are rehabilitation services delivered by a multi-disciplinary team, child care (Päevakeskus), support person services, aftercare for youth transitioning out of care, and social transport. Services are provided under the management of Sillamäe City Government in Ida-Virumaa, Estonia.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Asendushooldusteenus (Substitute Home Care / Foster Care Service) A 23-bed family-system foster home for orphans and children without parental care, organized into four family units of up to six children each, staffed by two foster parents per family providing round-the-clock supervision for children from birth until age 18 or completion of school.
• Rehabilitatsiooni Teenused (Social Rehabilitation Services)

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Sillamäe Linnavalitsus (Sillamäe City Government)coreOthers · 1 January 2025Sillamäe Linnavalitsus is the governing authority that administers Lootus as a municipal institution. The city government provides funding, oversight, and refers families to the institution's services including childcare, support person services, and transport.
• Sotsiaalkindlustusamet (Social Insurance Board of Estonia)coreOthersThe Social Insurance Board assesses rehabilitation needs, issues referral decisions, and covers the cost of social rehabilitation services for children with disabilities for up to 2 years per client. Lootus delivers the rehabilitation services under state funding.
• FORUS Security ASminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerFORUS Security AS conducted automatic fire alarm system (ATS) training for Lootus employees in 2025, providing safety knowledge and practical skills for emergency response to ensure child safety.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Others

• Estonian Chamber of People with Disabilities (Eesti Puuetega Inimeste Koda): Umbrella non-governmental organisation representing disabled people in Estonia — adjacent to Lootus's rehabilitation and disability-services work, providing the policy and advocacy layer that influences Lootus's service demand and funding.
• Estonian Union for Child Welfare (Eesti Lastekaitsetöö Keskus / Lastekaitse Liit): National coordinating body for child-welfare practitioners and policy in Estonia — not a direct competitor, but the institutional reference point and policy influencer that shapes the regulatory and funding environment in which Lootus operates.
• Sillamäe Social Welfare Department (Sotsiaalosakond): The municipal social-welfare authority inside Sillamäe Linnavalitsus that funds, oversees, and refers clients into Lootus — not a competitor but a strategic partner/principal whose budget and case-assignment decisions directly determine Lootus's throughput.

Broad incumbents

• Boys Town: US-based non-profit operating long-term residential care, family-support, and youth-development programmes — an established, scaled child-welfare institution that serves as a structural analog of what Lootus represents at municipal level in Sillamäe.
• Covenant House: International non-profit providing residential care, aftercare and support services for young people in transition, including those ageing out of substitute care — comparable to Lootus's aftercare (järelhooldus) offering and broader youth-support model, though operating across multiple countries.
• SOS Children's Villages International: Global non-profit operating the world's largest family-based substitute-care network; the parent/coordination entity behind SOS Estonia — comparable as the broader incumbent defining best-practice standards that Lootus's family-system model aligns with.

Direct peers

• Tallinn Children's Home (Tallinna Lastekodu): Municipal substitute-care institution operated by the City of Tallinn, offering residential family-style care, rehabilitation and support services for orphans and at-risk children in the capital region — structurally identical to Lootus's role in Sillamäe, only larger and operating in Tallinn.
• Tartu Children's Home (Tartu Lastekodu): Tartu city-operated residential child-welfare institution providing substitute family-based care and related social services in southern Estonia — directly comparable municipal child-welfare operator to Lootus but serving the Tartu region.
• Hoolekandeteenused AS: Estonian state-affiliated provider of 24-hour special-care and welfare services for children and adults with special needs — directly comparable in delivering state-funded rehabilitation and substitute care, though at greater scale and with a broader disability mandate than Lootus.
• SOS Children's Villages Estonia: Non-profit organisation providing family-based alternative care for children without parental care across Estonia — directly comparable substitute-care model to Lootus, operating at national scale versus Lootus's single-municipality reach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/slootus

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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