The Committee on Family Matters, Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism recommends that the Parliament should adopt as a basis the bill on amendments to the Law “On ensuring organizational and legal conditions of social protection of orphans and children, deprived of parental care” (re payment for communal services and for living space, assigned to orphans and children, deprived of parental care)

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
20 September 2013, 12:41

The bill (Reg. No. 2593) suggests supplement article 32 of the law with a provision, under which labour and social protection bodies are obliged to pay for communal services and for living space, assigned to orphans and children, deprived of parental care (until they turn 18). This pertains to the abovementioned categories of children, who have neither relatives registered on their living space, nor relatives owning this accommodation under the right of joint ownership.  

Committee members stressed that the bill lacks mechanisms to protect orphans and children, deprived of parental care. They believe such mechanisms should be elaborated during preparation of the document for the second reading.