Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said that social welfare institutions should step up their work to place orphaned children in families, and provide them with housing.
“I demand that the Social Policy Ministry and local authorities intensify work to find families for children who have lost their parents. It is unacceptable that not a single child was found a family in a third of the administrative-territorial units (291) this year,” Yanukovych said at a Ukrainian meeting on the protection of children’s rights in Kyiv on Tuesday.
The president threatened with staff reshuffles in relation to officials who are not paying much attention to the issue.
Yanukovych also demanded that the Education, Science, Youth and Sports Ministry, the Social Policy Ministry and the Finance Ministry should approve a provision concerning a new type of institutions for orphaned children and envisage proper funding for this.
He also noted that most regions haven’t properly addressed the issue of the construction of social dormitories for orphans.
The president demanded the government should immediately finalize relevant social programs and start their implementation.
