GC: n

S: http://www.socialserviceseurope.eu/ (last access: 6 March 2013); https://www.gov.uk/apply-needs-assessment-social-services (last access: 2 September 2014).

N: 1. Benefits and facilities such as education, food subsidies, health care, and subsidized housing provided by a government to improve the life and living conditions of the children, disabled, the elderly, and the poor in the national community.
2. In the field of Social Services and Social Work, the word in use is “human services” (the formal services and supports commonly referred to as health, education, culture and recreation, community and social services, and protection services).

S: 1. http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/social-services.html (last access: 26 September 2015). 2. TERMIUMPLUS (last access: 26 September 2015).

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CR: intergovernmental organisation, international protection, social education.