"social services" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2024 October 23, Jacob Oller, “Clay weepy Memoir Of A Snail crawls through a gauntlet of misery”, in AV Club:",
          "text": "Grace and her twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee) lost their mother during birth, and their alcoholic father during their hardscrabble childhood. The pair are divided up by social services, Grace sent to one side of the continent, Gilbert to the other.",
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "program",
          "word": "社會服務"
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "roman": "shèhuì fúwù",
          "sense": "program",
          "word": "社会服务"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "program",
          "word": "sosiaalipalvelu"
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          "sense": "program",
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          "word": "socialtjänst"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "program",
      "word": "社會服務"
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      "roman": "shèhuì fúwù",
      "sense": "program",
      "word": "社会服务"
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      "sense": "program",
      "word": "社会服务"
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