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The non-governmental support program Plecs and the Swedbank Financial Institute have developed a tool that could encourage more and more families to take care of children who do not have parents. This is a benefits calculator.
Contrary to previous practice, where available state aid information was in legal labyrinths, all available material support is now calculated and explained in a single system.
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About 800 children in Latvia woke up to their children this morning. Last year, in the run-up to Christmas, she publicly apologized to Social Affairs Minister Janis Reirs (Unity) and stressed that the goal of Latvia's future is to reorganize the child care system without the parents. At the national level, however, only a few steps are taken to this end.
Karina Plock
Parliamentary Secretary of the Department of Welfare (Unit)
This goal – Latvia without children's homes – has a marathon, this is not a sprint. We can take one step a year, maybe two or maybe three kids. This is not an annual project … It's our common story, and together we can help these kids get into the family.
About 30% of Latvian families considered the possibility of adopting a child in a household or a disadvantaged family, as evidenced by public opinion. survey. However, this is rare.
"Until a baby really comes into the family, this process is currently long and various obstacles complicate and prolong the process," says Liva Formate, head of the Plecs support program. © 1969, the press conference
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The most important obstacles are the need to write documents, shyness and even the fear of getting interested in state aid.
Arija Martukāne, head of the professional family badociation Terese, explains: from the ministry, employees who worked at the State Social Insurance Agency (ASV) or in the municipality, or in another institution, they usually had no idea of the host families. It's the beginning of such a cosmic event, and it's obvious that I'm entitled to this or that benefit. There was a curse when the VSA said you did not have to pay and not pay.
Adopters, guardians and foster families offer new informative support – a benefits calculator that provides all the information about benefits and costs. 19659005] Rein Jansson
Director of Swedbank Financial Institute
