LAW OF TURKMENISTAN

of December 18, 2021

About social services

This Law determines legal, organizational and economic bases of rendering social services to separate categories of persons.

Chapter I. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

1) social service - package of measures and actions taken for satisfaction of individual requirements of separate categories of persons for the purpose of improvement of conditions of their life activity and (or) expansion of their opportunities to independently provide the basic individual needs, and also for overcoming difficult life situation;

2) the user of social services - person, which acknowledged needing rendering social services and to whom social services are rendered;

3) suppliers of social services - organizations of social servicing, and also other legal entities irrespective of pattern of ownership and (or) the individual entrepreneurs rendering social services;

4) the social worker - the person who is rendering social services on the basis of assessment of individual requirements and having the qualification conforming to the established requirements;

5) the social work specialist - the specialist having the necessary qualification conforming to requirements and nature of the work performed by him, performing assessment of individual requirements and who is taking part when rendering social services;

6) social servicing - activities of state bodies and local government bodies and organizations of social servicing for rendering social services to the population;

7) difficult life situation - the situation determined by results of assessment of individual requirements of separate categories of persons, which is violating conditions of their life activity and objectively creating obstacles for their full participation in life of society which they cannot independently overcome;

8) assessment of individual requirements - the examination conducted by the social work specialist in case of visit of the potential user of social services for the purpose of detection of his individual needs for social support, establishments of its right to use of social services.

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