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social service

noun

  1. organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.



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Other Word Forms

  • social-service adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of social service1

First recorded in 1850–55
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By July 2021, Ethan was on the child protection register and the court heard details of repeated contact between Shannon Ives and social services.

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She's apologised immensely, knowing she couldn't do anything about it because I was under the care of social services.

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"It's police failure, social services failure," she said.

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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.

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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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