Meaning of provision

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HiI happened to read a sentence and there was a word whose meaning was confusingThe following is the sentence:The Seebohm Report, together with the Local Authority Social Services Act(9170), which followed,established the personal social services as a central element of state welfare provision.The word in question is, as you can see, provision.At first I thought that it stood for a legal document. then a thought struck me that it might meant providing of state welfare.Please tell me which is right.Do you think its meaning  is obvious? If so, please tell me why, and what would you use instead of provision in the case the opposite is right.

Avangi · Accepted Answer

Kwon Ki Poongpersonal social services as a central element of state welfare provision.

Your second option is correct.

State welfare is obliged to provide personal social services.

We're talking about the provision of these services by state welfare.

Kwon Ki Poong · Answer

Thank you for your attention and answer.

Could you do me a favor by giving me more detailed answer?

what I want to know is that if there is no slim possibility that the former is right.

If there isn't, what would have the writer written in case the writer intended provision as law?

Avangi · Answer

Kwon Ki Poongwhat I want to know is that if there is no slim possibility that the former is right.

Yes, there is none.

Kwon Ki Poongwhat would have the writer written in case the writer intended provision as law?

"Provision" as a countable noun:
Within the L.A.S.S.Act, the provision establishng "the personal social services" is a central element
of state welfare [provision].

A provision of the L.A.S.S. Act is that "the personal social services" will/must be a central element
of state welfare [provision].

You can see how awkward it would be. The act has several provisions. This is one of them.
There's nothing wrong with your idea, but it's very difficult to make these particular phrases fit.

In the original wording, "provision" is an uncountable:

Kwon Ki PoongThe Seebohm Report, together with the Local Authority Social Services Act(9170), which followed, established the personal social services as a central element of state welfare provision.

From this, we don't really know the full compass of the "Report" or the "Act."
They may deal only with state welfare, or there may be other "provisions" as well.

Your excerpt deals with the importance of "[the] personal social services"
as a part of the providing of state welfare.
The report cited it as "A" central element (not necessarily "THE" central element)
of the providing of state welfare;
and the act apparently does the same.

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