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Lithuania plans to reform system of child care institutions

BC, Vilnius, 27.06.2013.Print version
Lithuania’s Minister of Social Security and Labour Algimanta Pabedinskiene offers to take actions to prevent children from the foster home. During the Seima's press conference on Tuesday the minister said that it was scheduled to reform the overall system of child care institutions so that children who have no parents will be given the conditions to live in a setting as close to the family's surrounding as possible, informs LETA/ELTA.

Currently there are more than 10,000 children in the country who need care. More than 4,500 children lives in child care institutions. The country has planned to give about 5.3 billion litas (EUR 15,349,860.98) for the system of the child care institutions to be improved.

 

According to the minister, the very first goal is to reduce the number of children who get into the institutions, especially those until 3 years old and the children who have already got into the institutions have to be provided with the safe environment and the setting as close to the family's surrounding as possible.

 

Pabedinskiene regretted that currently the work with families in the social risk is not as efficient as needed to prevent children from getting into the child care institutions.





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