Effective
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Social Welfare Spending
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Alternative Care Policy in line with the 2009 Guidelines
Cabinet of Ministers’ Resolution on Conditions and Functioning of Guardianship Care Authorities #866; The Law of Ukraine for Ensuring Organizational and Regulatory Conditions for Social Protection of Orphan Children and Children without Parental Care
Centralised authority on adoption
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Commitment to Deinstitutionalistion/Reforms
State program for reforming care institutions for children without parental care; 2017 National Strategy for reforming institutional care and upbringing of children lacking parental care
Comprehensive child protection law
Source: Ukrainian Child Rights Network, 2018
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The Law of Ukraine on Protection of Childhood, The Law of Ukraine for Ensuring Organizational and Regulatory Conditions for Social Protection of Orphan Children and Children without Parental Care, The Family Code of Ukraine, The Civil Code of Ukraine; Law of Ukraine for prevention of and addressing to violence; Law of Ukraine on Access of Personal Data and Information; Law on public service; Law on Social Services
Continuum of alternative care services available
Source: Ukrainian Child Rights Network, 2018
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The continuum of care services includes: formal foster care, supervised independent living, mother and baby units, emergency reception/transit centers, group homes, institutions/large scale residential care facilities, boarding schools/internats, specialist residential care for children with disabilities
Data System
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Existence of a regulatory body and regulatory system
Source: Ukrainian Child Rights Network, 2018
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The regulatory system includes the following mechanisms: Guardianship body; Local administration notice and registration with the local authorities; Registration in the statutory DB; training participation and completion; visit of the statutory agency representative; and the line ministries follow-up on implementation of the standards in specific facilities subordinate to them. The Ombudsperson monitors implementation of standards in specific services following referrals of special cases under the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM). Ombudsperson is a semi-governmental independent body, appointed by the Parliament and accountable only to the Parliament. Under the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) the ombudsperson has the right to monitor any facility, institution, service existing in the country. Care providers have to verify conformity with the national accounting regulations and registration with finance/tax authorities.
Gatekeeping mechanism/policy
Source: Ukrainian Child Rights Network, 2018
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When the office of the child protection service starts a case for the child as for the child-orphan, a child deprived of parental care and a child who found herself or himself in difficult life circumstances - there is a requirement to carry out an assessment of the needs of this child and to draw up an individual plan for social protection of the child.
Means of tracking progress with reforms
The Ukrainian Child Rights Network utilized the Tracking Progress Initiative Tool in 2018
Moratorium on admission into institutions for children under 3
Source: Ukrainian Child Rights Network, 2018
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Children under 3 can only be placed in a facility under the MoH or family-base care. The moratorium on placement of children under 3 into residential care was to become enforceable in 2020. There are also DE-I plans at the national, regional and local levels. If family-based forms of care are available in a given locale, children from 0 -3 are placed into those as a matter of priority
Moratorium on new institutions
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National Action Plan
Source: Ukrainian Child Rights Network, 2018
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State program for reforming care institutions for children without parental care; 2017 National Strategy for reforming institutional care and upbringing of children lacking parental care - The strategy is planned for the 10 year period: 2017 to 2026. The strategy plans to deinstitutionalize the whole system of care for children. It also covers the institutions such as boarding schools/internats, which formally represent “education” facilities but in reality operate as childcare institutions. The strategy aims to develop and strengthen the social work and social services’ workforce. It also aims to develop throughout the country the network of family-based and family-like care alternatives, which are to replace all large-scale residential institutions.
National Standards of Care
Source: Ukrainian Child Rights Network, 2018
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Cabinet of Ministers' Decree #565; resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine; resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine #564; decrees of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Ministry of Social Policy and Ministry of Health (baby homes). Case managers are assigned to each placement to monitor implementation of standards, i.e. existence of complaints mechanisms, but large scale residential facilities are not compelled to meet minimum standards and the existence of complaints mechanism is not required from such facilities
Prevention of Separation Services available
Source: Ukrainian Child Rights Network, 2018
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There are local programs for prevention of /addressing causes of social orphanhood. There is an extremely limited range of social services for parents and children who are facing difficult life circumstances. On one hand, this situation is caused by insufficient number and lack of professional skills of specialists providing statutory social services. On the other hand, there is an undeveloped market of social service provision from the side of non-governmental organizations.
Support for careleavers (in legislation and in practice)
State Standard of the Social Service "Social Integration of the Children Leaving Institutional Care" (approved by the Order of the Ministry of Social Policy)
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Support for careleavers is written out in legislation, and resolution of the cabinet of ministers. Supports include: New clothes and shoes (not less than 12 minimum), cash assistance ( not less 2.5 non-taxable minimum income), free bedding, free food in canteens, annual allowance for study materials (3 social stipend), social stipend not less 8 non-taxable minimum income; holiday per diems and travel costs to visit the families/facilities where one was raised; start-up assistance before employment to cover clothing, footwear, houseware appliances, bedding etc; and single-time cash payment for those reaching 18 years of age amounting to the sum as defined by the resolution of the cabinet of ministers. From the time they are 16 years old, children in care are put onto the queue for social housing. Care-leavers also qualify for free education and, while in studies, free dormitory, study materials, canteen, clothing and footwear, social support, one-time cash payments when reaching 18 years old and upon graduation from an education institution. Careleavers also receive professional orientation/support in selection of a profession (contracts with selected vocation education facilities). Preparation for independent living (cooking, budgeting, etc) is prescribed by the State Standard of the Social Service "Social Integration of the Children Leaving Institutional Care"