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Former Deputy Minister of Family, Youth and Sports, Svitlana Tolstoukhova hopes that the public policy in the field of family affairs won't be neglected as a result of an administrative reform.

"I hope that in the course of the administrative reform, which has started, we won’t lose such an important social component, as family policy, child policy, and youth policy," she said, speaking at a meeting of the interagency council on the issues of family, gender equality, demographic development and counteraction to human trafficking in Kyiv on Friday.

According to her, many European countries have established separate agencies that oversee family and youth policy.

As reported, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych issued on December 9a decree on the optimization of the system of central executive power, which includes the reorganization of a whole range of ministries and agencies.

The Education and Science Ministry and Family Youth and Sports Ministry were merged into the new Education, Science, Youth and Sports Ministry and is headed by previous Education and Science Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk.