State and Current Trends in the Development of the Social Service System in Russia

Maxim A Shestakov,Marina V Danilina,Vladimir M Smirnov

doi:10.3390/economies10020032

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Abstract

The paper assesses the current state and development trends of the social service system. The authors presented the current scheme of the system of social services in Russia and determined that it includes the budgetary, non-profit and commercial sectors. In particular, it is shown that the dominant sector providing social services is the public sector. However, despite the dominant role of the public sector in the provision of social services, in recent years there has been a tendency towards an increasing role of the sector of non-profit (non-budget) and commercial organizations, which have different principles of pricing for social services. For a more complete description and development trends of the social services system in the Russian Federation, the authors determined the most important indicators characterizing the functioning of the social service system and the provision of social services to the population. For a quantitative assessment, a regression model of the dependence of these indicators was created. Analysis of the data in the table shows that, on average, over the past 3 years, the number of recipients of social services in the stationary form of social services has de-creased by 2% per year, while in the form of social services at home it has grown by 0.25% per year. The authors determined, that in the future, the demand for inpatient social services will be within the range of recent years, which should not increase the load on the system.

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As can be seen from the above graph, in the future, the demand for inpatient social services will be within the range of recent years, which should not increase the load on the system
As a result of interim studies, it was found that the indicators of the functioning of the social service system vary significantly
The authors developed the scheme of the system of social services in Russia

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Introduction

Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. According to the Federal Law “On the Basics of Social Services for Citizens in the Russian Federation”, social services are actions to provide a client with a social service that is provided for and/or does not contradict the current legislation. Article 4 of the said law provides that social services are carried out on the following principles: (1) equal, free access of citizens to social services, regardless of their gender, race, age, nationality, language, origin, place of residence, attitude to religion, beliefs and affiliation with public associations; (2) targeting the provision of social services; (3) the proximity of providers of social services to the place of residence of recipients of social services, the sufficiency of the number of providers of social services to meet the needs of citizens in social services, the sufficiency of financial, material, technical, human and information resources from providers of social services; (4) preserving the stay of a citizen in a familiar favorable environment; (5) voluntariness; (6) confidentiality. We determined that the system of social services includes budgetary sector and nonprofit non-budgetary sector The elements of these sectors are the following: 1.1. Organization of social services of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation

Non-Profit Non-Budgetary Sector

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