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Social entrepreneurship is characterised by a high degree of innovation and creativity. The topic of social entrepreneurship is currently often discussed and it is one of the trends of contemporary social economy in the CR. The Czech Republic is one of the countries that start discovering the benefits of social business, especially at the regional level. Experience from abroad clearly identifies the positive impacts of social entrepreneurship on the national economy. Social enterprises are one of the major stakeholders in the labour market employing socially disadvantaged people. This paper aims to identify the main barriers to the activities of social enterprises. To identify those barriers, use was made of a questionnaire survey in social businesses. Based on the results of the survey it was identified that the current main barriers include the non-existence of the social entrepreneurship act, insufficient definition of criteria for social enterprises and inadequate inter-departmental coordination. Potential future challenges appear to be legislative and systematic state financial support and preparation of the environment for social activities within the framework of regional cooperation including the establishment of social incubators.

Residential care for seniors belongs to current trends in now days debate on the quality of life for retirement people. Common problem to all EU Member States is the problem of aging population. European governments are currently addressed to the issue of the quality of life of seniors. Particularly provision of contingencies for outreach, non-resident and residential services – its setting, structure, financing and quality. The target group are seniors, men and women, who live in and use services of facilities residential care. A questionnaire survey was conducted in nine homes for the elderly in the South Moravian Region and 23 questions were included. The 252 respondents participated with the questionnaires. This paper aim is to evaluate the research which was carried out in residential care facilities for elderly. The research question was mainly quality care provided for the elderly and the reason for making the decision about entering this type of sanitary facilities/care-taking institution. All age groups are represented in residential care facilities, half of them receiving the care allowance. All respondents qualified the quality of service as good, and they were satisfied with a range of leisure activities. The research showed that residential care is not a threat to the quality of life of elderly people, but is offering them the conditions for fully spent time with no loss of their dignity. I infer a recommendation that any financial support to municipalities and counties for the establishment of residential housing for seniors is based on the research carried out and it is as well the right recommendations for future conception of housing in old age.

Social service law results in reduction of the state monopoly in offering social services, and also giving chance to private providers of social care. The new law adopts market principles in social sphere, because each provider of social care will take part on a fair competition while competing for social weak people’s favour. Article highlights role of partners during the process of establishing public policies that serves as a base for social services providing and identify as a mistake passive and static models without utilizing social capital and potential of partners.

Four countries that had once been embedded in a common welfare state, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, have espoused different paths of institutional welfare transformation following Yugoslavia's dissolution. The author's PhD dissertation aims to understand the nature of the changes that have occurred in two welfare sectors (employment policy and family policy) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia and Serbia, over the last two decades, by looking at changes in the characteristics of welfare programs and their implications on the capabilities of beneficiaries, as well as the levels of stratification they yield within these societies. Moreover, its other aim is to understand why such differences in welfare transformation came about. To that end, the dissertation applies Kingdon's Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) to identify important conditions that have contributed to streams converging and the opening of policy windows that resulted in agenda change.