THE QUALITY AND AVAILABILITY OF SERVICES INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL WORK IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT: REGIONAL, CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL ASPECTS
The provision of socially important services to the population, today, is one of the most promising and rapidly developing, but at the same time problematic sectors of the Russian infrastructure. Social work is a professional activity aimed at supporting individual, unprotected categories of the population. This article describes the process of formation of the Institute of social work in a separate region, as well as the specifics of its functioning in the urban areas on the basis of comparison with the rural environment.