12.3. Home for Children with Disabilities of the Károlyi István Children’s Center attention to facilitating the children’s independent living and to ensuring that the individual educational plans contained more and detailed information on the child’s scope of interest and on talent promotion. According to the information provided by the Director General of the supervisory organ, the General Directorate of Social Affairs and Child Protection, they attach prime importance, in addition to developing a foster parent network, to developing foster parent skills and competences. The General Directorate of Social Affairs and Child Protection organizes regular training programs for those working in child protection services. In the near future, within the framework of the Human Resource Development Operational Program (EFOP), following a questionnaire-based needs analysis, public calls will be published for organizing on-site training programs matching the staff ’s actual professional needs. Within the program’s frameworks, anti-burn-out, affective communication, and conflict management training programs, and continuous supervision will be provided. The General Directorate of Social Affairs and Child Protection is organizing internal training programs on the topic of the international legal standards related to the proper treatment of persons living with a disability. Institutional inspections will focus on obligations deriving from international treaties. In connection with the strategy aimed at replacing institutional capacities in the case of children living with disability or long-term illness, the Director General indicated that they were planning to complete the replacement, transformation process, the renovation and modernization of small-capacity, integrated foster homes and children’s homes within the frameworks of the EFOP 2.1.1 Project. Pursuant to Section 7, Subsection (2), Paragraph a) of the Child Protection Act, effective as of January 01, 2017, placing a child with severe disability or long-term illness with foster parents may be forgone only if it is not in the child’s interest, or it is not possible due to the child’s state of health.224 224 See Section 24 of Act CLXVI of 2016 on the amendment of certain acts on social issues and child protection. 95

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