The Cabinet approved the framework regulations concerning the organization and functioning of the social service “Family-Type Children’s Homes”. The document sets down minimum quality standards for the provision of the given social service, which haven’t been modified for 14 years, IPN reports.

The family-type children’s home is a specialist service that offers children substitutive family care provided by a parent-educator in their family. The beneficiaries are children who remained without parental care or were withdrawn from the family owing to an imminent danger to their life and health.

The parent-educators or persons who decide to look after children who remained without parental care will get the status of guardian after they attend special training courses that last for 50 hours.

The children will stay in family-type children’s homes up to the age of 18 or up to the age of 23 if they continue their studies at universities or other education institutions.

In Moldova there are now 74 family-type children’s homes that house 336 children. A sum of 870,000 lei a year is needed to pay the daily allowance for children placed in this service.