The Council of Ministers fixed the conditions for the development of the social services market and the support of private social boarding houses

The government has fixed the conditions for the development of the social services market and the support of private social boarding houses. The relevant resolution was signed by Prime Minister Alexander Turchin. This was reported in the government, writes sb.by.

The document was prepared with the aim of creating conditions for the development of the social services market, attracting private social boarding houses to their provision within the framework of the state social order, creating additional sources of satisfaction of the existing demand of the population for this type of social service.

- The resolution provides for the establishment of conditions for the participation of commercial organizations in the state social order in the field of social services, the consolidation of categories of citizens in respect of whom public procurement of social services is carried out in the form of stationary social services - single elderly citizens and single disabled people of groups I and II (with their consent), the determination of the upper limit of the cost of social services purchased from commercial organizations - not higher than the size of the tariff for social services per day, approved by decisions of the regional executive committees and the Minsk Executive Committee.

The document also gives the right to local authorities to provide private social boarding houses participating in the state social order with the following preferences: reduction of rent for real estate used for the provision of social services, priority acquisition of communally owned unused and inefficiently used real estate without bidding.

For all commercial organizations providing social services in the form of stationary social services, financial support is provided through a special loan product for initiatives of social importance, subject to compliance with the established requirements, assistance from labor, employment and social protection authorities in the direction of employees of commercial organizations for training in care skills, requirements for the content and quality of social services.

In addition, the issue of providing medical assistance to recipients of social services in commercial organizations - in state health organizations at the place of their stay at the expense of the local budget has been improved.