ANALYSIS OF SOME ASSURANCES FOR ACCESS TO INFORMATION ON SOCIAL WELFARE IN THE INTERNET IN RUSSIA AND THE UK
The results of analysis of official documents containing some guarantees for citizens'' access to information in Internet devoted to Russian social welfare and social services are presented in the article. The practical implementation of these safeguards by authorities at the federal level and in several regions of Russia is shown. We also identified a number of problems associated with the failure requirements of the legislation and inefficiency in activity of bodies and institutions of social welfare. Critical assessment is given to the functioning of website of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare in Russia, its content doesn’t fully meet the information needs of the population. The Unified Portal of State and Municipal Services of the Russian Federation “E-government. Public services” practically doesn’t provide all the services for social welfare and social services in electronic form today. Some attention is focused on the lack of Federal Governmental Portal of Social Welfare. The samples represent several success stories about Samara region and Republic of Tatarstan. Therefore, the presence of quite a large amount of information about social support in financial forms and the absence of information about social services in the Russian segment of Internet are recorded. We described also some guarantees for citizens'' access to information about statutory social work in Internet in the UK, which are not available in Russia at the moment: access to public registers of social workers and charities. Our recommendations for improving the activity of the social welfare system in the area of information openness are elaborated.