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Specific Needs of Children and Elderly Left Behind as a Consequence of Migration For local public administration - To keep a record and asses the needs of children left behind as a consequence of migration, the living conditions of families that take care of these children inclusively and their capacity to provide adequate and secure conditions necessary for the child’s development. To map these needs and to develop appropriate services; - To provide school meals for children of all ages in educational institutions, including providing payment, in order to reduce the risk of malnutrition. To encourage and support educational institutions in providing children with healthy food and to forbid fast-food in schools and in their immediate neighbourhood; - To improve the activity of guardianship authorities in identifying, referring and helping children left behind as a consequence of migration and to establish partnerships at the local level; - To expand the network of social assistance and psychological services in communities as well as foster family services (professional parental care, family-type homes for children, etc.); - To inform migrant parents and family members on their duties, and when parents intend to migrate abroad, to inform them on the necessity to place the child within a temporary guardianship; For social community workers - To keep a record and asses the needs of children deprived of parental care as a consequence of migration, including the living conditions of families that take care of these children and their capacity to provide adequate and secure conditions necessary for the child’s development; - To establish an effective partnership with educational institutions, medical institutions and other community actors in order to prevent children left behind as a consequence of migration from experiencing difficult situations; For educational institutions for children - To supervise children left behind as a consequence of migration; - To ensure within educational institutions, opportunities for communication between parents and their children who remained at home. Also ensuring the teachers’ participation thus increasing the level of accountability of both children and parents; - To develop extra-curriculum activities in schools (workshops, interest clubs, etc.) in order to facilitate social integration of children left behind as a consequence of their parents’ migration; 12
Executive summary For private service providers - To work out and disseminate information materials that should be adjusted to children of different ages, on the prevention of deviant behaviours and services they could provide; adjusted to parents on preparing children for their departure; adjusted to legal guardians and children’s caregivers on their communication with the child and the family; adjusted to teachers and other specialists who will deal with this category of children, parents and their caregivers; - To organize trainings on family life, family functioning, preserving family values, etc. based on a curriculum approved by the Ministry of Education; - To organize training on developing children’s abilities for correct management of remittances sent by their parents and improving their entrepreneurship abilities based on a curriculum approved by the Ministry of Education; For parents who migrate abroad to work or who intend to migrate - To place children in a temporary guardianship thus avoiding the risks that could affect children left behind that do not have a legal representative; - To systematically keep in touch with children; - To keep in touch with the educational institution the child/children attend/s in order to be informed on their school performance. The elderly • Legal - To amend the regulatory framework on the accountability of children to take care of parents in difficulty (alimony, to sign contracts with the state, etc.); - Development of the National Policies on Ageing in the context of the National Strategy for Demographic Security. - To implement new forms of social insurance that will guarantee a decent lifestyle into old age (to develop private pensions); • To develop forms of support and social services For the Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family; - To work out mechanisms for identifying those elderly left behind who are at risk (collaboration between social community worker, family doctor, etc.); 13
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