The article examines social service. The aim of the article is to pose a problem in terms of understanding the legal category of social services, determining its place in the system of legal relations and industry, identifying areas for development of legislation for provision of social services, both within the framework of its provision by entities related to public institutions and in the social sphere. The leading approach to the study of this problem is analysis, synthesis, formal legal

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... hod and comparative legal method. The authors suggest that an indication of intersectoral nature of relations requires legislative determination and establishing principles for interaction of these industries. The analysis allows to conclude that relations in the field of social services in the framework of development of socio-economic relations, with the modern legislative vector, seek to enter the sphere of economic, private, entrepreneurial relations, introducing into this category an element of publicity.