The implementation of the Act on supporting the family and foster care system in the scope of adjusting educational institutions to new standards

• Authors: Ruszkowska, Marzena

Abstracts

EN

In accordance with the Act on supporting the family and the foster care system, up to 14 children may be placed in the educational care facility at the same time. The facilities that opened before 2012 and were able to offer 30 places to their pupils until then, were given an 9-year transition period to adjust to the new requirements. The deadline for adjusting to these transformations expires on January 1, 2021. What seems significant is the question of what the process of adaptation to these changes looks like in the facilities that have not met these requirements yet, especially in the current situation of coronavirus pandemic, which significantly impedes any activities. Legal regulations, statistical data were analysed, and articles regarding the institutional care transformation published on websites were reviewed. It turns out that many local authorities have left to carry out organizational changes to adjust to new standards at the last moment, while the family ministry does not plan to extend the transition period which is due to expire in December this year.

Keywords

EN

institutional care; educational care facility; new standards

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Praca Socjalna
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 35(6)
• Pages: 45-58

Dates

published

2020-12-10

Contributors

author

Ruszkowska, Marzena

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0014.5737