The main aspects of forming the social work digitalisation strategy

Today's need to improve the process of providing social services to needy segments of the population finding themselves in difficult life circumstances has intensified interest in forming a strategy for digitalising social work. The study object is strategies for digitalising social work. The subject of this study is the factors and conditions that influence the formation of strategies for digitalising social work. The purpose is to study the factors and conditions to choose digital technologies by social work specialists, in particular those that ensure the provision of social services. During the study, the author used methods of analysis, synthesis, generalisation, and comparison. The website content of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine was analysed; Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On approval of the Strategy of Digital Transformation of the Social Sphere” and Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On Approval of the Regulation on the Unified Information System in the Social Sphere”. The scientific works of A. Hrytsenko, T. Burlai, H. Davydenko, T. Yehorova-Lutsenko, V. Malinovskyi, L. Khromushyna, in which modern approaches to various social work digitalisation strategies in Ukraine are studied; V. Togobytska and M. Khaustova, examining benefits, risks and problems for the social sphere during digital transformation; V. Prysiazhnyuk, investigating the digital transformation of the social sphere in the conditions of war. The author concludes that this process should be general, in which the key role is played by the state, involving various stakeholders, including Social Work specialists, clients and heads of Social Services, Information Technology Developers, academic institutions and non-profit organisations engaged in social work and perform socially useful functions. It confirms the need for further scientific research in social work digitalisation, contributing to improving the practice of Social Work and requires state support.