SOCIAL BUSINESS: PUBLIC AND NON-PUBLIC PROVIDER OF SOCIAL SERVICES

Nowadays, we meet with the correlating welfare state which is replaced by a private sector. This is reflected also in the field of social services. The private sector is increasingly expanding at the expense of the welfare state, the social services are becoming the subject of social entrepreneurship. The sample used in our paper is selected by a quota selection in terms of age, education and residence in particular regions. It is about 1250 respondents who have citizenship of the Slovak republic. In terms of used methods, we applied a questionnaire method, as well as analysis and comparison of results. The conclusions and results stemming from the paper will be directed to find out whether the citizens trust more the public or non-public providers of social services, whether the amount of income correlates with a view to the privatization of social services facilities, even if in case of need, they would choose public or non-public provider of social services for themselves or for their close relatives, where they see the strengths and weaknesses of public and non-public providers of social services. The importance for a practice is in a recommendation of what public providers of social services should do in order to be able to compete with the non-public providers of social services. Nowadays, we meet with the correlating welfare state which is replaced by a private sector. This is reflected also in the field of social services. The private sector is increasingly expanding at the expense of the welfare state, the social services are becoming the subject of social entrepreneurship. The sample used in our paper is selected by a quota selection in terms of age, education and residence in particular regions. It is about 1250 respondents who have citizenship of the Slovak republic. In terms of used methods, we applied a questionnaire method, as well as analysis and comparison of results. The conclusions and results stemming from the paper will be directed to find out whether the citizens trust more the public or non-public providers of social services, whether the amount of income correlates with a view to the privatization of social services facilities, even if in case of need, they would choose public or non-public provider of social services for themselves or for their close relatives, where they see the strengths and weaknesses of public and non-public providers of social services. The importance for a practice is in a recommendation of what public providers of social services should do in order to be able to compete with the non-public providers of social services.