The acting Cabinet approved the framework regulations concerning the organization and functioning of the local social assistance and family protection divisions and the standard structure of these divisions, IPN reports.

The framework regulations were worked out after experts of the World Bank assessed the role of the local social assistance and family protection divisions in implementing policies in the area of social assistance. The experts recommended increasing the number of employees of these divisions so that these have a greater contribution to the formulation of social policies and laying emphasis on communication when changes need to be made to the social policies.

Stress should be also placed on the training of personnel, improvement of inspection and monitoring of the activity of the employees of these divisions, in particular of those that provide social services.

The approval of the given framework regulations is foreseen in the National Plan of Action for implementing the Association Agreement between Moldova and the EU for 2014-2016 and in the Government’s program.