The Transnistrian administration decided to institute tutelage and guardianship services in a bid to deinstitutionalize the children who remained without parental c are. The services will become available from next year, IPN reports, quoting “Novyi Region” Agency.

According to representatives of the Transnistrian administration, the number of institutionalized children is too high and large amounts are spent from the budget for maintaining them. The new services are aimed at encouraging the adoption of children who remained without parents.

The new services will include all the regional tutelage divisions. Within them, potential adoptive parents will be instructed by jurists, social workers, psychologists and doctors. The employees of the new services will also work with socially deprived families and parents facing the danger of being deprived of parental rights.

The annual report on the situation of children from the Transnistrian region says that half of the institutionalized children are orphans or remained without parental care after the parents went abroad to work.