Social policy is a system of targeted activities carried out by the state or another business entity (for example, local, regional government, some private enterprise, etc.). They are carried out in order to improve the quality of life and raise its level among some segments of the population. Also studies social policy and issues related to economics, history, law, sociology.
In this area, an examination of the links between the effect and its cause in the field of public affairs is carried out. However, this definition is ambiguous, since there is no established opinion about the term "social policy". Often, it means the regulation of services fixed in organizational and legal terms and provided to society by the state. True, not all researchers agree with the use of this term in this sense.
Social policy of the state
Usually it is carried out through the authorities, regional or local. Financing of decisions in the social sphere is carried out from the state budget. The objects of social policy, as a rule, are large social groups. They must correspond either to the ideology prevailing in the state at the current moment, or to the long-term values of society, that is, to be promising.
While pursuing a social policy, the Government aims to improve the he alth of the people, create a favorable atmosphere for them in society, provide the population with sufficient and stable income, and support them in difficult situations. Its powers include regulation of labor relations, employment and labor migration of the population. For a coordinated, competent solution to all these issues, such a public service as the Ministry of Social Policy has been organized. He has several departments under his control. These are, for example, departments of pensions, administrative provision, labor market and employment, and others.
Social policy: priorities and strategy
The main direction of its activity is the general solution of a whole system of problems that arise in society precisely at the present stage of its development. Among the accumulated issues, there are always those that require priority intervention, and secondary ones. So, the social policy priorities are:
- ensuring normal conditions for the existence of a family, providing assistance to mothers;
- creation of decent living conditions for every person, from birth to death;
- providing the country's population with housing, improving the quality of socialservices: cultural development, he alth care;
- protection of all freedoms of citizens and their rights provided for by the Constitution.
Social policy: principles and objectives
Social policy faces the following tasks:
- motivate the labor activity of the employed population;
- stimulate economic growth, strive to ensure that production is subject to the interests of the consumer;
- preserve the identity of the nation, its originality, its natural and cultural heritage;
- provide the population with social protection and a decent standard of living.
Social policy is always guided by certain principles: partnership, guarantees, continuity, fairness and responsibility.
