The National Social Service started to exercise its powers and functions, according to the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine.
“Today, at a government meeting, an order was adopted on the beginning of implementation by the National Social Service of Ukraine of its powers and functions for the implementation of state policy in the field of social protection of the population and protection of children’s rights, as well as the implementation of state control over compliance with legal requirements in the provision of social support and observance of children’s rights,” the press service of the ministry said.
The report says that the state registration of the service has already been carried out, the approval of its position and structure, the staffing table of the apparatus, estimates, and 30% of vacancies have been filled.
Thirty-nine non-governmental organizations are going to take a legal action to declare unlawful a constituent assembly held on Monday, April 22, to form the public council under Ukraine’s Social Policy Ministry.
Head of NGO All-Ukrainian Platform of Donbass, head of the public council under the Ministry of Temporary Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine Hennadiy Borisichev announced this in a comment to Interfax-Ukraine.
According to him, the initiative group on the formation of the public council under the Social Policy Ministry has “committed gross violations of the law, and the meeting itself [on the formation of the public council] was held behind closed doors.”
“The activity of the initiative group was not transparent, with undisguised abuse of authority. Thirty-nine representatives of NGOs were not allowed to participate in the constituent assembly. This is an anti-record for the entire existence of the institution of public councils in our country,” he said.
According to Borisichev, human rights activists and journalists who arrived at the meeting were also not allowed to take part. Representatives of NGOs had a scuffle with the guards.
Members of anti-corruption NGOs were also not let in for the meeting, he said.
“The NGOs are now preparing documents for the court to recognize the constituent assembly on the formation of the public council under the Ministry of Social Policy as illegal,” he said.
COURT, NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, PUBLIC COUNCIL, SOCIAL POLICY
