The Role of Local Governments in Ensuring the Social Rights of Citizens

The strengthening of the social function of the state as a result of the constitutional reform of 2020 led to the expansion of the powers of public authorities and the establishment of new social standards and norms that are relevant to public demand. Local governments play a key role in ensuring the social rights of citizens. The activities of these bodies are multidimensional and critical and are aimed at creating a comfortable and safe living environment, conditions for active participation of citizens in society, support for the most vulnerable categories of the population, which contributes to improving the quality of life and social justice. This creates the prerequisites for deeper research and analysis of the social tasks and functions facing municipal authorities and their full adaptation and inclusion in the general directions of implementation of the social policy of the state in modern conditions. Taking into account the dialectical method of scientific knowledge aimed at revealing legal phenomena and processes in their interconnection and systemic unity, as well as other general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, generalization), the potential and various options of the existing legal capabilities of local self‑government bodies in the field of ensuring citizens’ social rights are being studied, as well as identifying specific problems in the area of legislative regulation of their powers.