Belarus approves conditions for development of social services market and support of private boarding houses

The Belarusian government has fixed the conditions for the development of the social services market and the support of private social boarding houses. The corresponding resolution was signed by Prime Minister Alexander Turchin, the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti news agency reports with reference to the press service of the government.

The document is aimed at creating conditions for the development of the social services market, attracting private boarding houses to provide them as part of the state order, as well as creating additional sources of meeting the demand for this type of social services.

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 and 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. We are talking about single elderly citizens and single disabled people of groups I and II with their consent. In addition, the upper limit of the cost of social services purchased from commercial organizations is determined - it should not exceed the size of the tariff for social services per day, approved by decisions of the regional executive committees and the Minsk City Executive Committee.

The document also gives local authorities the right to grant a number of preferences to private social boarding houses participating in the state social order. These include reducing rents on real estate used for social services, as well as prioritizing the acquisition of communally owned unused and inefficiently used real estate without bidding.

In addition, all commercial organizations providing social services in the form of stationary social services are provided with financial support through a special credit product for initiatives of social importance, subject to the established requirements. Assistance from labor, employment and social protection bodies in the direction of employees of commercial organizations for training in care skills, requirements for the content and quality of social services is also expected. In addition, the issue of providing medical care to recipients of social services in commercial organizations is regulated - it will be provided in state health organizations at the place of their stay at the expense of the local budget.