The public association CCF Moldova – Child, Community, Family and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection signed a memorandum of cooperation in the protection of children’s rights that centers on deinstitutionalization activities, IPN reports.

The sides will cooperate to develop and diversify the services intended for children aged between 0 and 3 and their families. The normative framework concerning the professional parent assistance service for children younger than three and children with disabilities will be reviewed. There will be worked out the normative framework on the organization and functioning of day centers for children aged between four months and three years.

An important step that will be implemented in partnership is the extension at national level of the new model of home visits to families with children younger than three, which was tested in four pilot regions: Donduseni, Drochia, Glodeni and Balti municipality.

“I highly appreciate the cooperation we have had with CCF Moldova in the process of deinstitutionalizing children, this being one of the main partners in the nongovernmental sector that contributed to the launch, promotion and implementation of the deinstitutionalization reform,” said Minister of Health Svetlana Cebotari, being quoted in a press release of the Ministry.

CCF Moldova president Liliana Rotaru said all the children should live in families and every effort will be made in this regard to assist the local and central public authorities in preventing the separation of children from families and in creating alternative care services.

The period of validity of the memorandum expires in December 2021.