FEATURES OF PROVIDING SOCIAL SERVICES IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The aim of the article is to consider the issue of functioning of social services in Ukraine, in particular the peculiarities of their provision. The urgency of the topic is due to the existing dissonance between the spectrum of social services declared in regulations and the mechanism of their implementation and the actual state of the issue. In addition, the phenomena of decentralization and deinstitutionalization have significantly affected the sphere of social services. Adjustments are made in the conditions of a quarantine mode through Covid-19. Research methods used: analysis of current legal documents, review, systematization and generalization of data published on the official website of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine on the functioning of mechanisms for providing social services, method of analysis of current scientific research on the topic were involved. As a result of the research, the modern legal framework for the provision of social services is analyzed; the range of innovations concerning the specified volume of each kind of social service is defined. A range of problems that need to be addressed urgently has been identified. In particular, the declarative nature of the content of social services, ie large differences between the statutory scope of the service and its functioning in practice due to lack of funding and lack of practical mechanisms for implementing the statutory social package. Immediate correction is also required for the uneven quantitative distribution of social service centers according to the population of the region; low level of involvement of volunteer, public organizations and the business sphere in the functioning of the social sphere of the state as a whole; lack of effective models of interaction between them.