Quickscan WMO: Dutch Social Support Act Policy Framework

The Quickscan WMO dataset contains policy documents related to the Dutch Social Support Act (WMO). The WMO was adopted by the House of Representatives on 14 February 2006 and outlines nine performance fields for municipal policy. The dataset is provided by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the structure of municipal social support obligations based on the nine defined performance fields.
• Researching policy shifts towards personal responsibility in healthcare as described in the act's introduction.
• Comparing local government implementations of the WMO's framework for social cohesion and quality of life.
• Studying the integration of informal care and volunteer support within formal municipal policy.

Strengths

• Provides the official policy framework for a major Dutch social care law enacted in 2006.
• Explicitly defines nine distinct performance fields for municipal social support.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Likely contains official policy documents and summaries related to the WMO act.

Time Range

The act was adopted on 14 February 2006; temporal coverage of the data is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Focus is on the Netherlands, specifically municipal-level implementation.