Presidential Decree 240 of May 29. Decade of Childhood in Russia - what the decree signed by Putin is about

MOSCOW, May 29 – RIA Novosti. President Vladimir Putin signed a decree according to which the period 2018-2027 will become the Decade of Childhood in Russia.

“In order to improve state policy in the field of child protection, taking into account the results achieved during the implementation of the National Strategy for Action in the Interests of Children for 2012-2017, I decree: to declare 2018-2027 in the Russian Federation the Decade of Childhood,” says the document, which published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

The President instructed the government to approve a plan of major activities until 2020 within three months.

Child protection is a global concern

Press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the decree, said that the topic of child protection is relevant not only for Russia, but also for the whole world.

“You know that at all levels of government quite a lot of attention is paid to these issues - the protection of motherhood, childhood, and so on,” Peskov told reporters.

"Huge responsibility"

The Decade of Childhood was also discussed at a meeting of the Presidential Coordination Council for the implementation of the National Strategy for Action in the Interests of Children for 2012-2017. According to Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, the new program is a huge responsibility for the government.

“I think it is a huge responsibility for all of us to mobilize the forces and resources of the state in order to ensure high-quality health, education and successful development of every child living in our country,” the official said.

According to Golodets, the state will give priority to issues of school and nursery provision.

“The projects that have already been started are the provision of school places - this is an absolute priority. In the next decade, of course, we must focus on solving the issues of nursery provision for children under the age of three, the next topic is all issues of supporting motherhood and childhood, demography - will be relevant for us,” the Deputy Prime Minister told reporters.

“We will work with specialists. I think this program will be worthy of our state and our children,” she added.

During the meeting, Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva also spoke about the problems young families face.

According to the head of the Ministry of Education and Science, the national strategy in the interests of children has made it possible to make measures to support families more systematic, but it has not yet been possible to completely solve the problem of poverty.

“The birth of a second child still throws most young families into a difficult situation,” Vasilyeva said.

The Ombudsman will prepare his proposals

The office of the Commissioner for Children's Rights will also be involved in the development of the program for the decade of childhood.

“On our part, of course, we will prepare proposals,” Children’s Ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova told RIA Novosti.

According to her, the main thing in the presidential decree is that the document determines the vector of development.

“I would like to note that not a single document by itself defines the essence of performance. It says that this is a priority, this is important. But now it is very important to understand what this document will be filled with, what real programs and proposals it will be filled out and implemented Even behind every federal law there is always an executor—a person,” the human rights activist noted.

"There are a lot of problems"

For the first time, the initiative for the Decade of Childhood was expressed in July last year by the speaker of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko.

Speaking at the first meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects, she proposed adding child support projects to the list of priorities for the country.

“Perhaps, based on the experience of the United Nations, we can declare, I don’t know, a “Decade of Childhood” - I call it conventionally, in order to focus on this topic. There are still a lot of problems, starting from the disability of children - I won’t list them,” she said then senator.

In November, Matvienko fleshed out her proposals.

“We have managed to make serious progress in solving key problems in this area. I am absolutely convinced that the National Strategy should continue to live in an updated form,” noted the speaker of the Federation Council.

According to her, this project must respond to new challenges emerging in the process of social development.

“When caring, energetic and professional people rally around the state idea, when the efforts of federal, regional and local authorities, entrepreneurs and public organizations unite, concrete results can be achieved in the interests of children,” said Matvienko, citing as an example the experience of implementing the National Action Strategy in the interests of children for 2012-2017.

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By his decree, he announced that the Decade of Childhood will start in 2018 in the country. The corresponding order was published on the official legal information portal.

The Deputy Prime Minister clarified that the main issues in the implementation of the new strategy will be nursery provision for children, support for motherhood, childhood and demography.

According to her, it is very important “to mobilize the forces and resources of the state in order to qualitatively ensure the health, education and successful development of every child living in our country,” the Deputy Prime Minister said during a meeting of the Coordination Council under the President for the implementation of the National Strategy for Action in interests of children for 2012-2017.

Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina proposed declaring the Decade of Childhood in the country in November 2016. Then Matvienko said that the new plan would be a continuation of the National Strategy of Action for Children for 2012-2017. The speaker also noted that the strategy is intended to “build the main directions of work to support children for 10 years, annually adopt specific plans outlining priority tasks for a specific year.”

From 2015 to 2017, the second stage of the national strategy in the interests of children takes place.

Important points of the state plan were measures to reduce poverty among families with children, ensure accessibility and quality of education, find and support talented children and youth, prevent the removal of a child from the family, prevent violence against minors and rehabilitate children who have become victims of violence.

Let us recall that in November 2016, Vladimir Putin updated the composition of the council for the implementation of the national strategy in the interests of children. The 35 members of the council included the Minister of Education and Science, the Commissioner for Children's Rights, as well as a member of the commission for the support of families, children and motherhood. The main task of the council was to identify priority areas of state policy in the interests of children and prepare proposals to solve these problems.

In February 2017, Commissioner for Children's Rights Anna Kuznetsova made a statement in "" in connection with the high-profile case of the removal of eight children from the Del large foster family.

“The very procedure of selecting children is inhumane,” said Kuznetsova. “We must carefully understand all problematic cases, draw up a “road map” of how we, defenders of children and families, will act.

We need to talk about developing a clear algorithm of actions for those who come to check on birth and adoptive families and make decisions about separating children from their mother. We must also develop clear criteria that exclude the possibility of using such a measure as taking away children for far-fetched reasons (the laundry is not laid out correctly, the blanket is not covered with the right one). We also need to think about the algorithm for returning children to families that have fallen under the excessive pickiness of regulatory authorities.”

Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva said that the main problem of school education is the too weak Federal State Educational Standards (federal state educational standards).

“Today they affect students from the first to the sixth grade, but are weak in content.

That is, we do not know what a child should know and be able to do in each subject at the end of each grade. Therefore, the first task that faces us today and is now being implemented is to fill the standards,” Vasilyeva said in the winter of 2017.

According to the minister, an excessive number of textbooks, which may not correspond to each other in content, is also a hindrance: “There are 1,276 of them (textbooks) in the federal list today. You can move from school to school, sit at a desk in the seventh grade and not understand anything, because School programs are often not similar to each other. Therefore, lists of textbooks should be based on the concept of the subject. They must be prepared in all school disciplines by the end of 2017.”

On May 29, 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree “On declaring the Decade of Childhood in the Russian Federation.” The document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

The initiator of the “Decade of Childhood” project was the Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. The new plan will be a continuation of the National Strategy for Action for Children for 2012-2017.

According to the presidential decree, from 2018 to 2027, Russia will carry out activities aimed at improving state policy in the field of child protection. The council for the implementation of the National Strategy in the interests of children includes 35 representatives. Among them are the Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva, the Commissioner for Children's Rights Anna Kuznetsova and others.

The strategy will be implemented in the main areas of work to support children, while each year priority tasks that require elaboration will be identified and plans for their implementation will be proposed. At the moment, the President has instructed the government to agree on a plan of major activities until 2020 in the next three months.

Specific details of the “Decade of Childhood” strategy are not yet known.

An Orthodox teacher, a member of the Writers' Union of Russia and a member of the board of the Russian Children's Fund, Tatyana Shishova, told the site's correspondent about what successes our officials have achieved in protecting family and childhood and what “good intentions” they will be guided by in the next ten years.

In 2012-2017, quite a lot of measures were taken to protect the rights of children, which actually help introduce elements of juvenile justice that destroy families.

The law “On the Fundamentals of Social Services for Citizens” introduced social patronage for the family. The public protested against this law, as a result it was renamed and passed anyway.

Now, if a family, caught in the crosshairs of services that are supposedly involved in protecting the rights of children, refuses social support, then, as in the West, repressive measures will be applied to it - taking away children and so on.

Further, a network of children's helplines was created. For what? So that children can complain, including about their parents. This is a pure tool of the juvenile system that undermines parent-child relationships.

A lot of methodological materials from pro-Western non-profit organizations were introduced into the practice of the regions. For example, such as the “National Fund for the Protection of Children from Cruelty”, “Fund for Support of Children in Difficult Life Situations”. At one time, these NGOs directly collaborated with organizations that were subsequently banned in Russia or considered undesirable. For example: USAID is the American international development agency. These NGOs trained many Russian social sector specialists.

Many measures were taken to destroy orphanages and create a system of “paid parenthood.” Children have become a commodity for which money can be received - this is also the approach of the juvenile system.

Regions have adopted inadequate regulations for interdepartmental interaction to prevent neglect or abuse of children. Any family, even a completely prosperous one, can fall under the criteria for intervention.

Just a couple of days ago, apparently on the eve of the signing of the decree by the president, the head of the Human Rights Council, Mikhail Fedotov, said that it was necessary to adopt a law “On the Prevention of Domestic Violence.” In those countries where such a law has been adopted, ordinary everyday situations are recognized as violence. And this law allows, based on expanded criteria, to prosecute that family member who is declared a rapist.

In some regions of the country, the priority of so-called “responsible parenthood” is being promoted. For example, such laws have already been adopted in Yakutia, although the public opposed it. That is, if parents behave differently than what the experts of juvenile funds recommend, they are declared irresponsible, and their children can be taken away from them. Many of the issues that this law tries to resolve relate to the sphere of intra-family non-legal relations and the moral choice of parents.

According to these laws, many of the state's responsibilities are actually transferred to the shoulders of parents. That is, parents may be accused of not being able to create a sufficient material base for raising children. And this is against the backdrop of unemployment in the regions, low wages, and housing problems. In our country, not all poor people are necessarily degenerate and irresponsible.

Recently there was a story on television in which they told how they tried to take away a child from one woman from the Sverdlovsk region, only because the corridor in her apartment was too narrow.

What should we expect in this case from the “Decade of Childhood”, since this is a direct continuation of the National Strategy for Action in the Interests of Children in 2012-2017?

- “The Decade of Childhood” is not divorced from international programs. The Council of Europe Strategy on the Rights of the Child was adopted on March 2, 2016. Our country, despite minor differences, nevertheless signed this strategy as a whole and is part of this association.

Among other things, the Council of Europe on the Rights of the Child requires all countries that are members of it to legislate a ban on punishing children in any form. We don't have such a law yet. This means, apparently, we should expect that a group of organizations and people who will promote the law banning punishments will once again revive.

Paragraph 4 of the European Strategy declares that children of Council of Europe member countries have a full set of human rights, that is, full legal equality of children and adults.

This is absurd and illegal, because then children must answer for themselves. On the one hand, parents are given full responsibility for how their children grow up; on the other hand, parents are deprived of the opportunity to somehow influence them. A legal instrument is being created to destroy the traditional family, where both children and parents have both rights and responsibilities.

The Council of Europe's Child Rights Strategy states in paragraph 36 that measures must be taken to combat discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identification. Now in Russia LGBT propaganda among children is prohibited, which means there will be grounds to seek the lifting of this ban, and the Council of Europe is already demanding this from us. And the signing of the “Decade of Childhood” works for Europe.

In addition, paragraph 55 of the Strategy states that the Council of Europe will promote the implementation of its family law standards, including new editions of the European Convention on the Adoption of Children. This suggests that so-called same-sex couples should have the right to adopt children.

For us, this means that the forces that seek the legalization of same-sex marriage will revive, and accordingly, children will be taken away from normal parents and given to such couples.

In addition, according to juvenile ideology, children under 18 years of age should not be subject to jurisdiction. In our country, even for serious crimes, such as gang rape, children are given suspended sentences, rather than sent to colonies. Repeated crimes are also given suspended sentences. This is just another burden on parents. The child is right in everything and has the right to everything.

Not long ago, President Putin noted an increase in teenage drug addiction. When there was a five-year plan for childhood, we warned that juvenile approaches would cause an increase in teenage crime and teenage drug addiction. We are now reaping the benefits of this strategy. In many countries, drugs have already been legalized, and in some countries the process of legalization is underway. This is all very sad and it is a pity that we will probably face the same fate.

What do you think is really worth considering when developing a government strategy in the field of child protection?

First of all, it is necessary to define and disassociate ourselves from those forces that have a truly unconventional understanding of child protection.

It is necessary to invest material and other resources in strengthening the traditional family. Nowadays, it is completely unfair that foster families receive much more money for the maintenance and upbringing of children than natural families .

It is necessary to abolish incorrect pro-Western teachings that allow any action of parents to be interpreted perversely as violence and a violation of children’s rights. It is necessary to reconsider the regulations of interdepartmental interaction, which actually create unbearable conditions for the existence of a family if they work at full capacity.

It is necessary to tighten laws that would protect the morality of children and ensure their information security. Children are not protected on the Internet from propaganda of depravity, violence and cruelty.

Often, even in schools, under the guise of promoting a healthy lifestyle, absolutely immoral phenomena are presented as a social norm.

That is, we need to strengthen traditional morality and ethics, and not erode these concepts even further.

- Do you know what budget is allocated for child protection?

I’m not ready to give specific numbers right now, but the budget is quite significant. The question is how well it is spent.

Recently, within the framework of the public council on children's rights, a report was announced on the spending of presidential grants on the activities of public organizations in the areas of family support, demographic issues and the like.

As a result, it turned out that in reality zero rubles were allocated to support families (and we have many families in difficult life situations who could use some funds).

The main funds were distributed to various pro-juvenile organizations. For example, for the organization of helplines, certain juvenile events, for the support of all kinds of foster care families (from the English foster care is a type of adoption that involves payment for the services of adoptive parents by the state, while full rights to raise the child belong to the guardianship authorities - editor's note).

But to support blood families and real policies that would help increase the birth rate - I repeat, zero rubles.

This project will be a natural continuation of the National Strategy for Action for Children, which is being completed this year

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On May 29, the regular meeting of the Coordination Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the implementation of the National Strategy for Action in the Interests of Children coincided with a significant event for the entire country - Vladimir Putin signed a decree declaring the “Decade of Childhood” in Russia. According to Valentina Matvienko, the new program opens up opportunities for a long-term vision of children’s problems and allows them to comprehensively set and solve tactical and strategic tasks in this area.

The government has decided on priorities

The Government intends to take a responsible approach to solving the problems that young Russians face. “I think this program will be worthy of our state and our children,” said Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets. “This is a huge responsibility for all of us - to mobilize the forces and resources of the state in order to ensure high quality health, education and successful development of every child living in our country.”

Within three months we must present a plan for how this decade will be spent.

The Cabinet of Ministers has already decided which areas should be given priority. Thus, according to the Deputy Prime Minister, special attention will be paid to increasing the accessibility of schools and nursery groups. Moreover, if the implementation of the program for the construction of new schools has already begun, then the issues of nursery provision for children under three years of age will have to be resolved precisely in the next decade. The Cabinet also intends to focus on supporting motherhood and childhood and improving the demographic situation.

“Within three months, we must present a plan for how this decade will be spent,” said the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva. According to her, the department intends to address a large range of issues. “This includes upbringing and education, these include issues of additional education, these are issues of children’s recreation, these are orphans and children with disabilities, and family problems, and our work with parents. That is, the whole range of issues that the Ministry of Education and Science has always dealt with. Only, I think it will be more detailed and deeper,” she said.

Parliament will not remain aloof from solving these problems. The task of the State Duma and the Federation Council is to join forces with the Government so that the next decade is filled with real steps and actions in favor of the child, in favor of childhood, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Irina Yarovaya is sure. “The president’s decision to declare the “Decade of Childhood” can, to a certain extent, be called historical,” she emphasized. “It is extremely important in determining the strategy for the humanitarian and social development of our country.”

Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Olga Vasilyeva. Photo by the press service of the Federation Council

290 camps are not ready to accept children

The main topic of the meeting of the Coordination Council on May 29 was the organization of children's recreation in 2017. This summer, about 44 thousand camps are ready to accept children, it is expected that 7.5 million schoolchildren will relax in them. Valentina Matvienko recalled that at the end of last year, a law on children's recreation developed by senators was adopted, establishing uniform requirements for children's recreation organizations, as well as specifying the powers of federal and regional executive authorities, as well as local governments.

However, preparations for the next summer season have proven that there are still plenty of problems in this area. For example, the structure of recreational institutions is still dominated by so-called school day camps. “Of the total number of children’s camps, stationary ones make up only five percent,” recalled Valentina Matvienko. No more than one and a half million children rest in country camps, which can most fully provide health improvement. “We need to think about expanding out-of-town forms of recreation for children,” she said.

In some regions, full-fledged programs for the development of children's camps are being implemented, while in others, funds are allocated only for current needs and payment for vouchers.

The head of the Federation Council is also concerned by the fact that in many camps the proper level of security is still not ensured and basic sanitary rules are not observed. The situation related to the recreation infrastructure also leaves much to be desired. “In some regions, full-fledged programs for the development of children’s camps are being implemented, while in others, funds are allocated only for current needs and payment for vouchers. As a result, so far only a few children rest in camps with good equipment, interesting developmental programs, under the supervision of qualified professional counselors,” said Valentina Matvienko.

This year, 290 children's camps did not receive permission to open, said the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova. “They do not have time to eliminate the identified deficiencies before the deadline,” she explained.

Two professional standards have already been developed and adopted for workers in children’s camps, and three more remain to be prepared, said Olga Golodets. “As part of summer programs, children go not only to relax, but also to develop, and we understand that professional teachers should work with them. Both the expectations of both children and parents must be met in full,” she explained.

According to Olga Golodets, the involvement of the professional community in the development of more accurate professional standards has already been discussed: “We hope that they will not only join in this work, but also take part in the accreditation of those instructors and teachers who will subsequently work with children on tourist trips "

As for the safety of children on vacation, the entire regulatory framework in this area has been changed, Olga Golodets recalled. “Now each group that goes on a route is obliged to inform the Ministry of Emergency Situations about its route, about who is accompanying the children. Those people who lead the group must have special education and special skills in tourist support, that is, be instructors,” the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized.

Work on these standards began this spring.

The Deputy Prime Minister also pointed out that many violations that occur when organizing children's recreation are associated with artificially low prices for certain services.

“The canteen is designed for 300 people, 586 eat,” she explained. - There should be 400 people in the camp, but 600 people are brought there. This should not happen; you absolutely cannot save on children.”

The safety of children on vacation will be taken under special control

The issues of ensuring the safety of children on vacation have become almost the main topic of discussion. Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev noted that increased attention will be paid to sanatorium and resort complexes in the Krasnodar Territory, Crimea and Sevastopol. From June 1 to August 31, additional staff from other regions of the Federation will be sent to these regions. And the forces of the transport police and the State Traffic Inspectorate provide support for organized groups of children as they travel to recreational areas.

During the meeting, Valentina Matvienko personally, using speakerphone, called the emergency service and asked whether they kept separate records of incidents involving children. The shift supervisor told her that so far they do not have separate statistics on such cases.

This needs to be corrected, Irina Yarovaya is sure. “The call made by Valentina Ivanovna during a meeting of the Coordination Council to the emergency service will allow the ministry to create a new additional statistical form of registration, which will provide reliable data on how many children are in a difficult life situation, what happened to them and what help they need,” explained she.

According to her, it is extremely important to have initial information that provides the basis for serious, thoughtful analysis.