Certain issues of legislative support to strengthening social protection of children and support to families with children were discussed during the meeting of the working group in the Committee on Family Matters, Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
23 October 2013, 10:23

The Deputy Chairman of the Committee Oleksandr Prysiazhniuk, presiding at the meeting, noted that in the nearest time the people’s deputies-members of the Committee will prepare and refer for consideration by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine the bill that shall regulate the issue of introduction of foster-family care. O.Prysiazhniuk reminded participants of the meeting that these issues have already been discussed in the Committee during the round table discussion entitled “Foster-family care: experience of introduction and ways of legislative regulation” on June 12, this year.  

According to the participants of discussion, foster-family care is the bundled service that stipulates temporary childcare and upbringing of a child in the family of a foster mentor for the period of overcoming of difficult life circumstances by a child or parents.

The mechanisms of foster mentors remuneration and the issue of providing foster families with service housing were also discussed during the meeting.