Burgas Region is the first region in the country where a regional coordination mechanism for deinstitutionalization of children has been created. This is an initiative of a project “RCM – a model of effective cooperation and interaction between civil sector, regional and municipal structures’ focused on children aged 0-3 and their families and is supported by the Governor of Burgas Region Valcho Cholakov.
In the first meeting participated over 30 representatives of institutions charged with work with children in risk on regional and municipal level. Deputy Governor Sevdalina Turmanova called the attention on the good coordination and responsible position of the institutional units whose activities’ priority is the protection of the childrens’ interest. The participants in the first meeting agreed that the interaction between the regional structures has to be improved with the aim to defense the interests of children and the coordination mechanism has to be turned to an working model also after the project’s implementation.