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 parenting” 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.
By his decree, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared, starting in 2018, 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 Action Strategy in the interests of children for 2012-2017, I decide to declare 2018-2027 in the Russian Federation the Decade of Childhood,” the decree states. 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 as a whole,” 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 during this decade the government will develop a specific program of activities dedicated to childhood every three budget years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree declaring 2018-2027 the Decade of Childhood in the Russian Federation. The corresponding document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.
It notes that this decision was made “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 of Action for Children for 2012-2017.”
The same document instructed the Government of the Russian Federation to approve, within three months, a plan of main events carried out within the framework of the Decade of Childhood, designed until 2020.
Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 29, 2017 No. 240
“On the announcement of the Decade of Childhood in the Russian Federation”
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 of Action for Children for 2012 - 2017, I decide:
1. Declare 2018 - 2027 the Decade of Childhood in the Russian Federation.
2. The Government of the Russian Federation, within 3 months, approves a plan of main events until 2020, carried out within the framework of the Decade of Childhood.
3. This decree comes into force from the date of its signing.
President of the Russian Federation V. Putin
Strategy for a decade
Caring for children is inherent in all countries and peoples. This is one of the hallmarks of 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.
Let me remind you that 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, access to quality education, upbringing, protection of their health, protection of children's rights - 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 carried out practical work on the preparation of the National Strategy of Action in the Interests of 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 currently possible for the implementation of the Strategy and other measures to support families and children. “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 the age of 18 from certain categories of families entitled to receive social support from the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation has increased by more than 77 percent.
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. The State Duma is considering 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.
Seventh. Primary attention within the Strategy is given to the recreation of children. In the regions, active work is underway 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.
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.
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 Concept for the development of additional education for children until 2020, and the 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 documents defining priority directions of state policy, including childhood issues. These include the Concept of socio-economic development of the Russian Federation for the period until 2020, the Concept of the 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. “A 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.
Decree declaring 2018−2027 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Decade of Childhood in Russia. The corresponding document is posted on the official Internet portal of legal information.
The purpose of this decree is “to improve state policy in the field of child protection, taking into account the results achieved during the implementation of the National Strategy of Action for Children for 2012–2017.”
“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 head of state’s order specifies.
The President also instructed the government to agree on a plan of main events until 2020, carried out within the framework of the Decade of Childhood, within three months.
Earlier, Putin discussed measures to counteract the decline in the birth rate in the country with the head of the Ministry of Labor Maxim Topilin. Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko also asked Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to approve the “Decade of Childhood” project before June 1, Children’s Day.
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Caring for children is inherent in all countries and peoples. This is one of the hallmarks of 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 to quality education, upbringing, protection of their health, protection of children's rights - 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 carried out practical work on the preparation of the National Strategy of Action in the Interests of 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 currently possible for the implementation of the Strategy and other measures to support families and children. "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. The State Duma is considering 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. In the regions, active work is underway 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 Concept for the development of additional education for children until 2020, and the 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 documents defining priority directions of state policy, including childhood issues. These include the Concept of socio-economic development of the Russian Federation for the period until 2020, the Concept of the 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.
