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Mechanisms for coping with difficult situations
family protection programmes intended to prevent family abandonment
” (III_EC_1);
- To complete the national legal and regulatory framework with
provisions on the accountability of parents who migrated abroad
to work. The laws of the Republic of Moldova already stipulate quite
clearly the main duties of parents regarding the education of their
children but these are not widely respected: “We now actually look for
more liable ways of making parents more responsible when they leave
their children, and I can mention here the reform of the guardianship
authority. Empowering local authorities with greater competence in this
area, allows them to intervene and make families responsible for negative
practices towards children” (III_EC_1);
- To make legal the payment of a financial contribution by migrant
parents in order to reform a fund for medical services: “Parents
leave abroad in search of work, do not pay taxes, but health care remains
at the expense of our health insurance system, which is facing so
many financial difficulties. There should be a fee or policy contribution
– it may be called differently–that would be paid by parents when they
go abroad thus, a fund would be created and children will benefit from
it, paying for their various medical expenses” (III_EC_4);
- To promote legislation on the assessment and accreditation of social
services operating in the Republic of Moldova, taking into account
the fact that only quality services can provide efficient support
to beneficiaries.
• Developing forms of support and social services (responsible are the
Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family; Ministry of Education;
Ministry of Health; Educational institutions of different levels;
Local Public Administration of the 1st and 2nd level, and community
social workers):
- To work out mechanisms for identifying children left behind (eventually
through a data base). Lack of a general overview on children
left behind represents an obstacle in elaborating and implementing
social policies, in this regard: “...we need a census of children left without
parental care and afterwards we’ll be able to implement the reform
of guardianship authorities” (III_EC_1);
- To conduct public awareness-raising campaigns about the issues of
children left behind as a consequence of migration, available social
services as well as the duties of parents, communities and social institutions.
“Mass media has the leading role in that through publications,
radio, television and other means...” The experts also remarked that it
is extremely important: “...what we intend to accomplish by this study.
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