The European Charter of Human Rights should be amended to put Romania under an obligation to regularly report on the progress made through measures to support children and adults with health problems, Minister of Family, Youth and Equal Opportunities Natalia Intotero said on Monday at a roundtable conference on services and solutions friendly for children with disabilities and their families organised by the Senate Committee on Human Rights and UNICEF Representation in Romania.
"A working group has been started in this area of children and adults with disabilities. Somehow, perhaps in order to put pressure on all institutions indirectly, the European Charter of Human Rights, the UN Convention should be amended through an addendum, so that Romania be placed under an obligation to regularly report on progress made through measures to support children and adults with health problems," said Intotero.
She added that she had tabled two legislative initiatives with Parliament in the interest of 500,000 children in poverty, so that they could receive more attention from decision-makers.
"We are trying to carry out the two projects and to have laws, so that our children may get more attentio."
According to Roxana Manzatu, state adviser at the Prime Minister's Chancellery, an integrated approach to the funds needed to solve children's needs is important.
"Let's try to have this integrated approach, because if we don't have integration between national funds and any other types of local resources, loans, private resources and European funds, the intervention will always be fragmented and limited. (...) We have drawn up an action plan to follow in the coming years, so as to make sure that when drafting each state budget, drafting local budgets, discussing with both the Ministry of Finance and Parliament's budget committees, we intend to have a meeting in June, to raise awareness and then budget measures for children complementary to European funds. (...) At the Prime Minister's Chancellery we have set to have a discussion with the country's financiers and representatives of local administrations so that, in addition to European funds, we try to promote financial support for everything that means paying the investment in children, from salaries to utilities, to everything that means the way in which certain quotas are distributed to local administrations to support public services for children. It is a road on which we start, to begin to realise that, beyond European funds, we need (...) to really prioritise services that have an impact on children. From the highest level, the message is that we want to prioritise the sustainability of the services offered to children and that is what is happening today."
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