The Department for Public Services performs tasks relating to:
- professional, administrative and legal, supervisory, regulatory, financial, administrative and technical and other tasks of the City in the fields of primary and secondary education, preschool education, culture, physical culture, sport, public information, social protection, primary healthcare, child protection and veterans’ and disability protection;
- checking requests and making payments on requests in the fields of primary and secondary education, preschool education, culture, physical culture, sport, public information, social protection, primary healthcare, child protection and veterans’ and disability protection;
- monitoring and ensuring the functioning of institutions and organisations in these fields founded by the City, and supervising their work;
- encouraging the development of amateur cultural and artistic activity and artistic creativity, monitoring cultural and physical culture events and the implementation of programmes of cultural institutions of importance to the City;
- population policy tasks (financial assistance to pregnant women and new mothers in the City of Smederevo, contributions to the costs of in vitro fertilisation), and financial assistance to university students and secondary school pupils;
- tasks delegated by the Commissariat relating to the care of refugees, internally displaced persons and returnees under readmission agreements, keeping records, and legal and administrative tasks entrusted to it by the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration of the Republic of Serbia;
- tasks delegated by the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration of the Republic of Serbia in the procedure for recognising the status of refugees, internally displaced persons and returnees under readmission agreements;
- youth policy tasks (Youth Office, Local Youth Council, writing projects and taking part in implementing approved projects, writing projects for the National Youth Office, taking part in policy-making at national level and implementing the adopted policy);
- tasks relating to the diaspora (cooperation with the Administration for the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia, Diaspora Centre, and with representative offices; connecting the Serbian diaspora with the City of Smederevo through profit and non-profit cooperation in information, healthcare, sport, culture, tourism and investment; providing the diaspora with information and assistance in all fields);
- monitoring and coordinating the resolution of Roma issues (Local Council for Improving the Position of Roma of the City of Smederevo, Mobile Team for Roma Inclusion of the City of Smederevo, preparing and implementing project proposals, assisting Roma in exercising their rights in social and health protection, implementing affirmative measures for Roma);
- social and health protection tasks (Local Council for Social Affairs, the right to concessionary travel for beneficiaries from the territory of the City of Smederevo, material support in social protection provided by the City, cooperation with and co-financing of associations of persons with disabilities, assessing the need for additional educational, health and social support for children, pupils and adults, writing projects and taking part in implementing approved projects, protection of patients’ rights, and the right to obtain the status of energy-vulnerable customer of electricity and heat);
- delegated tasks within the remit of the Republic in veterans’ and disability protection
- conducting administrative proceedings and preparing rulings on citizens’ entitlements under national laws (veterans of the People’s Liberation War, veterans of the wars of 1990–1999, disabled veterans, families of fallen and deceased veterans and civilian war invalids), paying benefits to beneficiaries in veterans’ and disability protection and preparing reports and analyses for the competent ministry;
- delegated tasks within the remit of the Republic relating to social childcare: conducting administrative proceedings on citizens’ entitlements in social childcare (child allowance, parental allowance, wage or salary compensation during maternity leave, childcare leave and special childcare leave, other benefits related to the birth of a child, and reimbursement of preschool costs for children without parental care, children with developmental disabilities, children with disabilities and children of social assistance beneficiaries), and preparing reports and analyses for the competent ministry;
- other tasks in the fields of primary and secondary education, preschool education, culture, physical culture, sport, public information, social protection, primary healthcare, child protection and veterans’ and disability protection, in accordance with the law and the City Statute;
- providing legal aid;
- tasks relating to the implementation of gender equality in accordance with the law;
- other tasks in accordance with the law, the City Statute and other acts of the City.