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social service
noun
organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.
Other Word Forms
- social-service adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of social service1
Example Sentences
By July 2021, Ethan was on the child protection register and the court heard details of repeated contact between Shannon Ives and social services.
She's apologised immensely, knowing she couldn't do anything about it because I was under the care of social services.
"It's police failure, social services failure," she said.
That’s still better than being subjugated to poverty and slavery for an eternity by a party whose members openly cheer the dismantling of education, social services and health care.
The cyber-attack in February 2020 caused chaos, disrupting everything from bin collections to social services and decisions about how to keep vulnerable children safe.
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