The well-founded theoretical foundations of the modernization of the institutional environment of the system of public management of social protection of the population in the modern conditions of social development, the introduction of a conceptual model and the optimization of the system of institutional provision of the public management of social protection of the population in Ukraine are investigated.
It has been proven that social protection is an extremely extensive sphere of state-administrative influence, which is associated with a high level of dispersion of social risks. The state, through its influence, must ensure the achievement of a decent standard of living for all citizens, taking into account the features of the above structural elements of the rights of citizens to social security.
The work substantiates that social protection is a system of social relations, measures and legal guarantees that protect any member of society from economic, social and physical degradation as a result of off-road and sharp violation of the conditions of his well-being, threat to health and life, impossibility to realize his labor and civil potential.
The author singled out the mechanism of implementation of public management of social protection of the population and indicated that countering social risks is an important direction in the aspect of ensuring the completeness of social protection. The state creates an additional system of means for forecasting, preventing and countering the consequences of social risks. This instrument of the state is used in the case when there is a need for sharp and operative intervention for social equalization.
The work analyzes the legislative provision of public management of social protection of the population in Ukraine. Social protection is a rather multi-vector structure that includes organizational, legal, economic, pedagogical, medical and social and other measures regulated in the current legislation of Ukraine. The purpose of social protection is to protect the rights and freedoms of citizens, their social security
The author found out that a powerful regulatory and legal framework for social protection of the population has been created, which regulates both employment of the population, social protection of working persons, and support for persons who find themselves in difficult living conditions, persons with disabilities, persons of retirement age, low-income seven and others At the same time, in the conditions of war and hostilities, the financing of these measures is insufficient.
The author determined the place of the institutional environment of the system of public management of social protection of the population in the modern conditions of the development of the Ukrainian state. The main bodies of state power that form and implement state social policy include: the President of Ukraine; Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine; Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine; Ministry of Economy of Ukraine; Ministry of Finance of Ukraine; Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine; Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine; Ministry of Justice of Ukraine; Ministry of Health of Ukraine; State Employment Service; Pension Fund of Ukraine; Fund of universally obligatory state social insurance of Ukraine in case of unemployment; National Health Service of Ukraine; National Social Service of Ukraine.
The author considers it important to highlight the following four main groups of indicators when determining the place of the institutional environment of the system of public management of the social protection of the population in the modern conditions of the development of the Ukrainian state: firstly, the provision of the social protection system with resources and infrastructure: means directed to the social protection of the population, in proportion to the number people; indicators of development of the infrastructure of the social protection system of the population (availability and capacity of social service institutions, availability of the entire range of social services to the population); secondly, the organization of the work of subjects of social protection of the population: the effectiveness of the work of public authorities in the field of social protection of the population, their territorial bodies; thirdly, the population's satisfaction with the quality of the organization of social protection: conducting sociological research, can be compared with "social well-being", which expresses a person's satisfaction with certain aspects of his life; analysis of social tension; use of the results of content analysis of appeals received by state authorities; fourth, indicators of the level and quality of life of the population: taking into account the poverty level, average wages, maintenance of the consumer basket, the number of families that receive subsidies for housing and communal services.
