The article aims at presenting the community planning of social services in the Czech Republic as a dynamically evolving means to secure availability of the social services and planning of their development on the level of basic local administrative units as a means of the social policy. It required by law to create a medium-term plan of social services (community plan) on the regional level. Even though local administrations do not have the obligation to create this plan, both theory and experience in the field of social services planning show that the most effective means to enquire needs of users and desirability of social services is the method of community planning. This method is applied by many municipalities and their voluntary unions and through it they implement the social services planning as an effective means of social policy on their territory.