Object: the process of forming the professional competence of future social workers on social protection of youth rights; purpose: scientific-theoretical substantiation, development and experimental testing of social-pedagogical system of formation of professional competence of future social workers on social protection of youth rights; methods: historical, functional, structural analysis, qualitative, quantitative analysis, extrapolation, generalization, systematization, classification, forecasting, systemic structuring, theoretical modeling; observation, conversations, questioning, questioning, testing, generalization, introspection, self-observation, pedagogical experiment, methods of mathematical statistics; novelty: the author's social and pedagogical system of formation of professional competence of future social workers on social protection of youth rights is theoretically substantiated and developed; clarified the essence of the concepts of "youth", "social protection of youth rights", "professional competence of future social workers on social protection of youth rights"; the content of educational programs for the training of future social workers on social protection of youth rights has been improved; methods and organizational forms of the educational process in higher education institutions, which contribute to the formation of professional competence of future social workers on social protection of youth rights; the content of educational programs for the training of future social workers on social protection of youth rights has been improved; methods and organizational forms of the educational process in higher education institutions, which contribute to the formation of professional competence of future social workers on social protection of youth rights; have acquired further development of the scientific provisions of the theory and practice of professional training of specialists in the social sphere; scientific understanding of the nature, structure, criteria and levels of development of professional competence of future social workers in social protection of youth rights; a social pedagogical system of forming the professional competence of future social workers on social protection of youth rights in the educational process of higher education institutions has been developed, modeled and implemented; educational programs of specialty "Social work" ("System of social protection and activity of social services", "Technologies of social work", "Fundamentals of social and legal protection of personality", "Theory and practice of social work") have been improved; developed educational and methodological complexes of subjects "Social work with children at risk", "Actual problems of social policy in Ukraine", "World models and standards of training of specialists of social sphere"; made recommendations on the organization and practice of students of the specialty "Social work" in the context of social protection of youth rights; methodological materials on the problem of forming the professional competence of future social workers on social protection of youth rights were prepared and tested.
