During his visit to the Chechen Republic, Minister of Labour Maxim Topilin visited the Grozny Centre for Social Aid to Family and Children, the Republican Gerontology Centre, the Grozny Family-Type Rehabilitation Centre for Children with Disabilities, the Regional Medical and Social Expert Review Bureau and the Chechen Republic Pension Fund Department. According to Maxim Topilin, the Grozny Family-Type Rehabilitation Centre for Children with Disabilities is one of the best institutions of its kind in Russia.
After reviewing the social sector institutions, the Minister met with representatives of North Caucasus Federal District regional authorities and held a meeting on regional roadmaps, on introducing a transparent mechanism of wages of the heads of budget organisations and on improving the system of extending social services.
The main goal of the programme is to raise, step by step, the wages of some categories of state employees, including social workers. Maxim Topilin said that currently all North Caucasus Federal District regions have developed their roadmaps and agreed on them with the Ministry of Labour.
During the meeting the Minister said that there are plans to considerably raise the wages of social workers by 2018. “We need to have some growth in this sphere already now. It is a regional liability to do this with regard to categories that include primarily social workers. Meanwhile I want to recall that the federal centre extends very serious support – this year it amounts to 100 billion roubles including 60 billion that the Government has already transferred to regions,” he said.
“We are setting a goal to raise the average wages of social workers up to 47.5% of the region’s average this year, up to 58% next year and gradually up to 100% by 2018,” he said.
