134 MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE
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lack of the standards of medical services and of any standard comprehensive methodology of continuous rehabilitative measures for re-socialization of the elderly, disabled and children with disabilities;
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the Rules of care and custody approved by Order of the State Committee
of Ukraine for Matters of Family, Youth and Sports, Ministry of Education
of Ukraine, Ministry of Health Care of Ukraine and Ministry of Labor and
Social Policy of Ukraine (No. 34/166/131/88, of May 26, 1999) fail to comply with the domestic and international human rights standards;
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the existing personnel schedule standards do not correspond to the actual needs in professionals;
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absence of guidelines for children’s asylums/ centers on promotion of
physical and psychological recovery habilitation and social integration
of the children who suffered from physical, sexual, psychological or economic violence (according to Article 39 of the Convention on the rights of
the child).
Recommendations communicated to the management of
the Ministry of Social Policies of Ukraine on the basis of the
monitoring results were as follows:
⇒ To ensure implementation of the Edict of the President of Ukraine (No.
301/2012, of May 7, 2012) “On amendments to the Regulation on the Ministry of Social Policies of Ukraine” with regard to regulation, methodological support and coordination of the activities of the central and local bodies of executive power and of local self-government in the sphere of care
and custody of incapable adults;
⇒ To raise before the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine the matter of increase
of funding, for capital repair and renovations (to eliminate overpopulation of living areas, to install elevators and ramps at living units), filling of
staff positions of medical and pedagogical personnel and improvements
in the diet and medical support at institutional residences;
⇒ To promote prompt approval of the Model Provisions on a neuropsychiatric residence and amendments in the Model Provisions on a home for the
elderly and disabled, geriatric residence and residence for war and labor
veterans, Model Provisions on a neuropsychiatric residence and Model
Provisions on a childcare residence, in order to bring them into conformity with the modern domestic and international standards and principles
of custody of the elderly, disabled and children with disabilities;
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