Financing of Social Services

The bachelor thesis describes the theoretical structure of the social service financing system in the Czech Republic and the current problems affecting its functioning (for example the COVID-19 pandemic, age structure of the population). The aim of the bachelor thesis is to use freely available data and multiple regression analysis to investigate the relationships between variables that influence the volume of funding and accessibility of social services. The objective was achieved by comparing two models, representing the years 2014 and 2022. The results show an increase in the impact of the number of social service facilities and their clients, the number of recipients of the care allowance and the number of people aged 65+ on spending on outreach social services. The result thus implies a trend that appears to be unsustainable in the long term. This finding has been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected the social services system to a high degree, but in the long term the impact of changes in the age structure of the population is more significant.