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Social services is a term applied to the range of support functions that governments, both national and local, provide to improve the social aspects of life for their populations.

The services provided may include, depending on circumstances, help with:

• Aging or gerontology
  • Nursing home
  • Hospice
• Anti-poverty
  • Income assistance
  • Job training/placement
• Anti-racism
• Child welfare
  • Adoption
  • Child abuse
  • Foster care
• Disability services
• Family planning
• Food bank programs
• Forensic Social Work programs
• Health and wellness
  • Hospital social work
• Housing and homelessness
• Immigrant and refugee services and supports
• Juvenile and criminal justice
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered supports
• Mental Health
• Religious and spiritual settings
• Substance abuse
• School social worker
• Violence prevention

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• Community services
• Government programs
• Healthcare services
• Integrated services
• Literacy services
• Mental health services
• Outreach programs
• Protective services
• Shelters
• Social casework
• Social programs
• Social work
• Support groups

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• For a UK perspective]