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The state programme has been drafted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection in execution of Presidential Executive Order No. 596 On Long-Term State Economic Policy of 7 May 2012.
The state programme is aimed at improving the social safety net for specific population categories, supporting families and enhancing the efficiency of social services.
The Ministry of Labour is the principal executor of the state programme, the Ministry of Economic Development has been designated as its co-executor, and the state programme’s participants are the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Regional Development, the Ministry of Healthcare, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Federal Security Service, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy, the Ministry of Justice, the Federal Service for Labour and Employment, the Federal Customs Service, the Federal Migration Service, the Federal Service for Drug Control, the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Federal Bailiff Service, the Federal Medical-Biological Agency, the Federal Agency for Fishery, the Federal Communications Agency, the Federal Agency for Air Transport, the Federal Agency for Rail Transport, the Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport, the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation, St Petersburg State University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Russian Academy of Arts and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
The state programme comprises four sub-programmes:
Enhancing the social safety net for specific population categories;
Modernising and developing social services;
Improving the social safety net for families and children;
Increasing the efficiency of state support for community-focused non-profit organisations.
The state programme aims to enable beneficiaries of the safety net to improve their wellbeing and increase the accessibility of social services.
The state programme is expected to deliver on the following objectives:
- fulfilling government’s obligations regarding the social safety net for citizens;
- tending to the elderly, people with disabilities, families and children in need of social services;
- creating an environment conducive to improving family livelihoods and welfare, and increasing the birth rate;
- expanding the share of private non-profit organisations in providing social services.
The state programme runs until 2020 and is not divided into any stages.
The following parameters (indicators) will be used to determine whether objectives of the state programme and its sub-programmes have been fulfilled:
- share of population with cash incomes below the subsistence level in Russia;
- share of population that received social services from safety net organisations having applied for social services with such organisations.
The amount of resources allocated to the state programme from the federal budget has been set taking into account the need to reach the indicators outlined in Presidential Executive Orders No. 597 and 606 of 7 May 2012.
The main outcomes of the state programme are expected to be the following:
- reducing the poverty rate among beneficiaries of the social safety net by developing a targeted approach to the provision of social services;
- by 2020, satisfying the demand among the elderly and people with disabilities, including children, in constant nursing care as part of the social safety net;
- supporting and facilitating social integration for people facing hardships or social risks;
- by 2018, raising the average salary of social workers on a par with the average salary in the relevant region;
- by 2020, ensuring that most of the children without parental care are placed in families;
- expanding the scope of social services provided by community-focused non-profit organisations.