Chapter 1. Observing social rights Due to the measures taken by the Commissioner, the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine #686 of 17 July 2019 “On Amendments to the Resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine #975 of 23 November 2016 and #673 of 29 August 2018” amended the Procedure. Now it extends to children of persons recognized as participants in combat operations in the territory of other countries. At the same time, free accommodation of P.’s daughter in the hostel of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine remained unresolved. The proceedings of the Commissioner are ongoing in this case. RECOMMENDATIONS To the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine: 1. Develop and submit to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine draft law on professional/vocational-technical education. 2. During the formation of the State Budget of Ukraine for 2021, to provide adequate funds for the modernization of the material resources of vocational-technical institutions. 3. To take measures to increase the salaries of the teachers of n the institutions of vocational-technical institutions by amending the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine #1298 of 30 August 2002 “On Remuneration of Employees Based on the Unified Tariff Grid Grades and Coefficients of Remuneration of Employees of State-Financed Institutions and Organizations of Certain Areas of Public Sector.” 4. To improve the system of funding and management of vocational-technical education by approving the respective legal framework, providing for a clear division of powers and responsibilities between central and regional levels of government. To the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine – to take measures to provide funding to establish the Research Centre on Deafness in the M.P.Drahomanov National Pedagogical University; training of sign language interpreters; providing the department of special and inclusive education of the University with modern technical means and special equipment for workplaces for individual and group work with students who have impaired vision, hearing, speech, musculoskeletal system. 49 CHAPTER 1 The monitoring revealed that the problem of non-awarding of social scholarship arose from inconsistency of the Procedure and the conditions for providing state targeted support to certain categories of citizens for obtaining vocational and higher education, approved by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine #975 of 23 November 2016 “On providing State Targeted Support to Certain Categories of Citizens for Obtaining Vocational-Technical and Higher Education” with the requirements of the Law of Ukraine “On the Status of the War Veterans, the Guarantees of Their Social Protection.”