Special Reports on the Monitoring of State Reintegration Service
On July 18, 2016, the Public Defender of Georgia held a presentation of special reports on monitoring of foster care and reintegration services within the framework of the project supported by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - "Strengthening the Public Defender's Centre for Child's Rights".
The reports reflect results of the monitoring carried out by the Centre for Child's Rights from 1 June 2015 to 1 June 2016 and the Public Defender's recommendations.
Within the monitoring, rights situation of 380 beneficiaries of foster care subprogram and 110 beneficiaries of reintegration service, as well as sessions of the Guardianship-Care Regional Councils, were examined.
The monitoring showed that it is necessary to essentially strengthen state policy and internal mechanisms in order to effectively protect the rights of foster care and reintegrated children.
The Public Defender considers it essential to raise the social function of reintegrated families, strengthen the reintegrated children living in relatively and extremely poor households and to develop/implement a coordinated national policy between the state and local governments for this purpose.
When assessing the effectiveness of foster care program, it should be noted that despite the requirements of international standards, no coordinated state policy has been yet developed between the central and local governments in the field of foster care at the normative level. Absence of system of training and retraining of foster caregivers at the national level.
