Georgia offers family based childcare for children from orphanages
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Georgia is creating better conditions for the children living in the orphanages by offering them family setting care instead of institutional child care.
The Ministry of the Labour, Health and Social Affairs continues the process of deinstitutionalisation of the orphanages in Georgia, which started about three years ago.
Within this process two large orphanages will be closed in the country. Instead these orphanages children will be moved to the "natural environment” where they will receive a family setting care for proper socilisation and upbringing.
For this purpose the Social Service Agency of Georgia’s Ministry of Health and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding today.
Minister of Justice of Georgia Thea Tsulukiani stated today that the state will take responsibility to protect the children living and working on streets.
Georgia makes an effort to better protect the rights of homeless children. The Government has approved a package of legislative changes aimed to end violence against street children and increase their protection.
A new specialised family-type service for children with severe disabilities has been established in Georgia’s third largest city of Kutaisi in the country’s west.
Seven children with disabilities who are currently under state care will soon live in a new facility where they will get family-type service and care.