to employment at public sector also influenced the educational system so the number of professional associates at educational institutions is not even remotely sufficient for providing of services of additional support to children and students. Thus, the service of personal attendant is not available to all the children who need it – many local self-government units failed to establish the service of personal attendant and at the city of Belgrade there is still a “waiting list”. The Protector of Citizens issued recommendations 33 to the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs with the aim of providing the number of professional employees proportional to the needs of citizens, especially in the field of protection against violence. The Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs, acting upon recommendations of the Protector of Citizens filed the request for additional employment but it was not adopted. Even beside the assurance that as of January 2020 the situation would change, the rigid and linear limitation to employment34 without implemented assessment of the influence to children, which endangered and aggravated the exercise and protection of child rights. As in previous years, a significant number of complaints in the field of child rights still indicate to the violation of child rights, maintaining of personal relations with parents with whom the child does not live, as well as failure to execute court decisions on entrusting a child and decision on the manner of regulation of personal relations of a child and parent. In October 2019 the European Court of Human Rights passed the verdict in which the Republic of Serbia is declared responsible35 because of the inability of the complainant to be reunited with children and exercise parent right and because of the violation of the right to family life. Passing of this verdict confirms the fact to which the Protector of Citizens has been indicating in annual reports that it is necessary to establish and provide an efficient system of passing and executing of court decisions which refer to family-legal position of children, especially in situations of parent conflict and domestic violence. Corporal punishment of children is not introduced into the legal system of the Republic of Serbia and services of support to parents for the purpose of their information and education on alternatives and far more efficient educational methods despite clear attitude of the profession on detriment of this educational method are not developed. Children in families where domestic violence occurs are not recognized as victims of domestic violence and therefore adequate protective measures towards them are neither planner or applied, and children victims are exposed to secondary traumatization. According to allegations from complaints and information which are known to the Protector of Citizens, after reported sexual harassment of a child, children go through multiple interrogations and they are not provided with protection from the encounter with the suspected/convicted and protective measures are not used (one-time interrogation with the use of audio/video technique, interrogation at special premises, etc.). these pieces of information indicate to the possibility that children are exposed to multiple re-traumatization despite the existence of %D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0/%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%88% D1%82%D0%B0%D1%98%D0%B8%D0%B8%D0%B7%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0 %B0-2018/. 33 Available at: https://www.ombudsman.rs/index.php/2012-02-07-14-03-33/5985-u-vrd-ni-pr-pus-i-u-r-du-ndl-znih-u-bl-s-i-z-sh-i-zr-v-u-sluc-vi-p-r-dicn-g-i-p-r-n-rs-g-n-silj. 34 Article 4 Paragraph 2 of the Law on Amendments to the Law on Budget System „Official Gazette of RS“, no. 72/19. 35 Available at: http://www.zastupnik.gov.rs/cr/articles/presude/u-odnosu-na-rs/prikaz-presude-upredmetu-milovanovic-protiv-srbije-broj-56065-10.html - 34 -