Decree of the President of the Russian Federation ten years of childhood. The “Decade of Childhood” program has launched in Russia. If I were president
By his decree, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared, starting in 2018, the Decade of Childhood in Russia.
"In order to improve public policy in the field of child protection, taking into account the results achieved during the implementation of the National Action Strategy in the interests of children for 2012-2017, I decide to announce 2018-2027. in the Russian Federation with the Decade of Childhood,” says the decree published on the official Internet portal of legal information.
The Government of the Russian Federation has been instructed to approve, within three months, a plan of main events until 2020, carried out within the framework of the Decade of Childhood. The decree of May 29 came into force from the date of signing.
At the end of April, Putin discussed with the Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin measures to counter the decline in the birth rate in Russia, which experts predict in connection with the demographic crisis of the 1990s.
“We know about the problems that await us, which arose back in the 90s, when the country faced a precipitous, if not catastrophic, drop in the birth rate. This leads to the fact that in the near future - experts know this well - the number of women reproductive age will decrease, and by 2025, according to experts, their number will decrease by 34% compared to 2015,” Putin said on April 26 at a meeting with Topilin.
In this regard, the head of state added, the structure of the population will change, the burden on the working population will increase: the number of elderly people will increase, and the number of births, for objective reasons, will probably decrease.
“But we, of course, must and will make attempts to stimulate births, we will continue to pursue a policy of motherhood and childhood, but we will need to make certain adjustments to social policy in general," Putin said.
In mid-February of this year, Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko asked Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to approve the “Decade of Childhood” project before June 1, Children’s Day.
“We have made a proposal to declare a decade of childhood in Russia as one of the important, priority projects, in order to determine the direction of this activity for the long term. I would ask you to give instructions so that a decree approving such an important, long-term, priority project would be approved until June 1. This would be a good gift for International Children’s Day,” Matvienko said at Medvedev’s meeting with the leadership of the Federation Council.
According to her, there are already developments on this project. It is expected that within this decade the government will develop a specific program of activities dedicated to childhood every three budget years.
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 children away 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 school education The Federal State Educational Standards (federal state educational standards) are too weak.
“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 alike. 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 teaching materials pro-Western non-profit organizations. 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 talked about how one woman from Sverdlovsk region they tried to take the child away 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 propaganda healthy image In life, 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.
Exactly the day before International Day for the protection of children, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Decree “On the Declaration of the Decade of Childhood in the Russian Federation.” Let's find out what the coming decade has in store for us!
Decree: short and not very clear
“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 decide to declare 2018-2027 in the Russian Federation the Decade of Childhood. The Government of the Russian Federation, within three months, approves a plan of main events until 2020, carried out within the framework of the Decade of Childhood.”
(Click on photo to enlarge)
This is, in fact, the entire decree signed by the president. It is not very clear from it what the government will come up with by September 1. Give all mothers money? Increase maternity leave to 10 years? Ban abortion? However, we need to come up with something, because...
There is no one else to give birth to
...last month the president discussed with the Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin the problem of reducing the birth rate in the country. Experts predict a decline in the birth rate due to the demographic crisis of the 1990s.
It should be noted that before the demographic crisis of the 90s, the country experienced a demographic boom in the 80s. He explained, among other reasons,
- By the Decree of the State Committee for Labor of the USSR and the Secretariat of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions dated July 6, 1982, according to which paid parental leave was extended to one year, and unpaid leave to one and a half;
- Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions of August 22, 1989, increasing paid leave to one and a half years, and unpaid leave to three.
Women who no longer had to be torn between work, a nanny and a nursery began to give birth more and more often. But in the 90s (when, we recall, the USSR collapsed, local civil conflicts broke out here and there, inflation turned into hyperinflation, salaries were delayed for several months, two monetary reforms passed - and this is far from full list) this happy time is over. The so-called “Russian cross” arose - an excess of mortality over the birth rate, and this trend continued for 20 long years.
What broke the trend is a moot point. Experts believe that the role of maternal (family) capital in increasing the birth rate was important, but not the only one. Indeed, in 2007, when this measure of fertility support was introduced, the large generation of “long maternity leave”, born in the 80s, turned 20-25 years old.
If I were president
But now the holiday is over, the children of the 80s are already over 30 and will no longer make a significant contribution to the birth rate.
” - We know about the problems that await us, which arose back in the 90s, when the country faced a precipitous, if not catastrophic, drop in the birth rate. This leads to the fact that in the near future - experts know this well - the number of women of reproductive age will decrease, and by 2025, according to experts, their number will decrease by 34% compared to 2015, said Vladimir Putin
(Rosstat's demographic forecasts until 2035 look bleak. Click on the photo to enlarge... no, not demographics - pictures)
Accordingly, today's 20-year-old girls will have to give birth twice as many times as the previous generation to maintain demographic balance. And they still need to be persuaded to do it! But how?
- Last fall, a certain non-profit organization “For Life” carried out a large-scale all-Russian campaign for the ban on abortion, managing to win over the leadership of all major religious denominations countries,
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proposed supporting young (under 23 years old) families with first-born children,
Politician and public figure Yuri Krupnov sent the president his bill “On the status of large families", providing for a tax on small children,
- Finally, and this is the only initiative already implemented -
” But this is also true - why encourage a woman to give birth to a second child if there is no one to give birth to the first, and she needs to give birth to at least four?
Five years in the interests of children
However, let’s stop playing analysts and get down to stating the facts. And the facts are as follows: the “Decade of Childhood” had a quite ambitious predecessor - the five-year plan for childhood, the National Strategy of Action in the Interests of Children for 2012 - 2017, approved by decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 1, 2012. ( It's the first of June again, did you notice, right? Every five years on the first of June, the president and the government go to the bathhouse to protect the interests of children...)
” We have been living in conditions of “actions in the interests of children” for five years now, we hope you have already seen, noticed, felt and appreciated this.
After all … “as a result of the measures taken, there have been positive trends in increasing the birth rate and reducing child mortality, improving the socio-economic situation of families with children, increasing the availability of education and medical care for children, and increasing the number of children left without parental care placed in families”
If you haven’t noticed, here are some statistics on the data: Federal service state statistics.
Population of the country from 2012 to 2017 increased by 3.8 million people, from 143 to 146.8 million people.
Maternal mortality decreased from 219 people in 2012 (11.5 cases per 100 thousand births) to 188 people in 2016 (10 cases per 100 thousand births).
Infant mortality(mortality of children from birth to one year) decreased from 8.6 cases per 1000 people born alive in 2012 to 6 cases per thousand in 2016.
Number of children left without parental care, decreased from 2012 to 2105 by 25%, and the number of orphans raised in government institutions, decreased by half: if in 2012 there were 11,145 children in orphanages, then in 2015 there were only 6,142 children.
Not everything, of course, is as good as it seems at first glance.
” For example, it was not possible to cope with poverty. If in 2012 17.6% of all children under 16 years of age lived in families with an average per capita income below the subsistence level, then in 2015 the figure was already 21.4%.
But overall, life has become better, life has become more fun.
Looking to 2027
But let's return to the "Decade of Childhood". No fantasies, only public statements officials! Vladimir Putin signed the decree, of course, not simply because he noticed the date “June 1” on the calendar. Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko gave a well-thought-out impromptu speech in November 2016.
Well, the priorities of the Deputy Prime Minister are clear, but as soon as the phrase “Decade of Childhood” was first heard, Vladimir Putin then 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 Olga Vasilyeva and the Commissioner for Children's Rights Anna Kuznetsova. Each of the ladies spoke about painful issues. - about education:
On May 31, I met with the president and said that one of the serious problems of childhood in our country was the Mantoux test:
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- This topic worried our parent community so much that thousands of requests were received by the Office of the Commissioner,- the ombudsman reported. - There was controversial legal practice on resolving this issue, and thousands of children remained without access to preschool and school educational institutions. Before we discussed this together, there was only one possibility to get in - to make Manta, as we all did. Now, thanks to the Children's Ombudsman, medical practice will be widely introduced alternative options early diagnosis of tuberculosis in children. |
But the main thing, of course, is what does Putin himself mean by the concept of “Decade of Childhood”? Probably, one should be guided by the list of instructions approved by him following the meeting of the Coordination Council for the implementation of the National Strategy for Action in the Interests of Children for 2012-2017, held on November 15, 2016. So, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has been entrusted with...
develop a system of early (and versatile) helping children with disabilities , children left without parental care from families in a socially dangerous situation;
stop repurposing children's sanatoriums and resorts, especially if they are located in Evpatoria;
ensure the development of fundamental scientific research in area prevention of childhood disability;
consider the issue of gradual expansion of the program neonatal screening.
” And, of course, improve the system for preventing teenage suicide (it turns out that we have such a system - all that remains is to improve it).
Previously, noble knights went to fight dragons, now - with .
But these, as you yourself understand, are first estimates - by September 1, we expect a truly inspiring program from all ministries and departments. It’s even curious in what ways they will persuade us to give birth, give birth, and give birth again.
” After all, no one has yet mentioned the fact that every fifth child in the country lives in a family with an average per capita income below the subsistence level. And that’s true - it’s not to butt heads with blue whales...
Prepared by Alena Novikova
Caring for children is inherent in all countries and peoples. This is one of distinctive features civilization. And yet, I think I will not be mistaken if I say that in our country such an attitude towards children is especially deeply rooted. Not only as an integral part of our culture, as a national tradition, but also as a direction of state activity. Moreover, the direction is a priority, the most important.
(From the speech of V. Matvienko)
On June 1, 2012, President Vladimir Putin, by his decree, gave a “start to life” to the National Strategy of Action in the Interests of Children for 2012 - 2017. Her term expires this year. And the president has just signed a decree approving the “Decade of Childhood” project for the period 2018 - 2027. It is hardly possible to find better confirmation that family, children, their protection and support are truly our fundamental values, which largely determine the policy of the Russian state.
Unfortunately, this was not always the case. Russian children turned out to be the social stratum that fully experienced the hardships of the perestroika period and the subsequent decade. Family support, accessibility quality education, education, protecting their health, protecting the rights of children - serious problems were discovered in all these areas. They quickly accumulated and were poorly resolved.
That is why the Federation Council, as the Chamber of Regions, took the initiative to develop a strategic document, the implementation of which would lead to a change in the situation. The Federation Council organized and implemented practical work on the preparation of the National Strategy of Action for Children for the period 2012 - 2017. The document, if you think about it, is innovative, since nothing like this has been created in the history of our country.
The National Strategy adopted five years ago, in essence, was to turn the economic, social, and financial policies of the state towards children. Have we managed to make such a turnaround? I think yes, we have achieved this. The goals of the Strategy have been achieved, the main tasks have been solved. I will name what gives grounds for such an assessment. This is primarily the fact that children and family have become a real priority. A developed system of legal regulation of state policy in the field of family and childhood has been built. In the process of this work, we adopted regulatory legal acts on issues of child protection and childhood that have never been regulated in our country at all. We have accumulated a wealth of experience in public-private partnerships and social entrepreneurship. We rate it positively. We will develop mechanisms for such interaction.
The social status of Russian children and the opportunities for intellectual and physical development have become significantly better. In a number of areas, primarily in the field of preschool and school education and medical care for children, we have come very close to countries that have achieved particularly great success here. You can already note the key points.
First. Despite the fact that the country is going through a difficult stage, we manage to allocate funds to the maximum extent possible for the implementation of the Strategy and other measures to support families and children. this moment volume. "Children's expenses" of the federal and regional budgets are not considered by the authorities as a savings reserve.
Second. A lot has been done to support large families. In particular, the validity period of the maternity capital program has been extended until December 31, 2018. The range of its use has been expanded. Since 2012, the number of children under 18 years of age from certain categories of families entitled to receiving social support from the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
Third. Primary attention is paid to improving the child savings policy. Thus, the number of orphans and children left without parental care has decreased by half since 2012. Orphans are given special rights when admitted to study at the country's universities in bachelor's and specialty programs. The number of children whose parents are deprived of parental rights is decreasing. A bill aimed at increasing the level of social protection for children whose parents are unknown.
The state and society are seriously concerned about the significant scale of violence against children - family and street. It cannot be said that a radical change has been achieved here. Nevertheless, a downward trend has emerged: since 2012, the number of crimes against minors has decreased by 18 percent.
The problem of protecting the moral and spiritual health of children has become increasingly urgent.
Fourth. The absolute priority of state policy is to protect the health of children and mothers. Over the past five years, the maternal mortality rate has decreased by half, and infant mortality by more than 40 percent. The program for the construction of perinatal centers in Russian regions is being fully implemented. The formation of a three-level system for organizing medical care for women during pregnancy, childbirth and newborns is being completed. The Concept for the Development of Early Childhood Assistance, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, has been adopted.
Fifth. The problem of protecting the mental, moral, and spiritual health of children has become increasingly urgent. The Federation Council approved amendments to the Law “On the Protection of Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development” and a number of other legislative normative acts.
Sixth. Particularly much has been done over the years to improve the living conditions of that group of children who for a long time were on the periphery of the attention of the state and society. We are talking about children with disabilities, disabled people. Thus, the size of the social pension for people with disabilities from childhood of group I and for disabled children has been increased. The right of parents, guardians, trustees with a disabled child under 18 years of age to annual paid leave at a time convenient for them has been established. Programs are being implemented to create an accessible environment for people with disabilities and develop inclusive education.
The main thing, in my opinion, is that the National Strategy united representatives of government bodies at all levels, civil society structures, scientists, businessmen, and experts. A clear understanding was formed that supporting family and childhood is not a waste, the return on which is unknown when and what it will be. This is an investment in human capital, the quality of which, as is known, determines the competitiveness of a country, and therefore its position and role in the world.
Seventh. Primary attention within the Strategy is given to the recreation of children. It's going on in the regions active work to restore the infrastructure for children's recreation and improve its quality. A law has been adopted that introduces qualitatively new criteria and requirements for ensuring the safety of children’s recreation. We also make sure that children's holidays are filled with interesting sports and cultural events.
I think it is from these positions that issues related to filling the “Decade of Childhood” project with specific content must be resolved. It should include programs that were adopted during the implementation of the National Strategy for Children, but whose duration extends beyond its scope. These are the Concept of state family policy in Russia for the period until 2025, the Strategy for the development of education in the Russian Federation until 2025, the Development Concept additional education children until 2020, Strategy for the development of the children's goods industry for the period until 2020.
It is necessary to ensure the relationship between the “Decade of Childhood” and the documents defining priority areas public policy, including childhood issues. These include the Concept of socio-economic development of the Russian Federation for the period until 2020, the Concept demographic policy of the Russian Federation for the period until 2025, priority projects in the field of education, culture, sports, and upbringing.
Time gives rise to new challenges that require a creative approach and non-standard solutions. "Decade of Childhood" is no exception. I am confident that this project will be implemented successfully. Because the country has resources, and because acute problems in the field of childhood have been resolved, a foundation has been created that allows us to confidently move forward. We need to use the available opportunities as efficiently as possible. One of the most important conditions is the interaction between government and society. We have the necessary mechanisms. The point is to build cooperation between the state and citizens in the field of family and childhood.
