Abstract
Social services are provisions that respond to the needs of individuals, groups, or communities to improve social, emotional, and physical well‐being not supplied by carers who are kin. Social services are difficult to define, but constitute part of the welfare state that is the domain of social work and its practitioners – social workers and those who assist them in their tasks, social care workers, home helpers, and a range of others who work to provide services backed by society including the state, voluntary agencies, and commercial enterprises. They cover all client groups across the life course – children, families, older people, disabled people, mentally ill people, offenders of all ages, in diverse institutional settings or local communities.
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