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Report Card 2015 marks minor progress in childcare – 3.20
National Network for Children proposes 10 recommendations to 10 unresolved problems
Sofia, April 15
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, 2015 – For fourth consecutive year National Network for Children presented “Report
Card 2015: What is the average score of State’s care for children?” The purpose of the document is to
make a review of the progress of the implementation of State’s commitments to the children.
The highest score in the document is Good 4.29 for sub-subject “Early childhood care and education”.
The progress in this field is sensible compared to last year when the score was Poor 2.86. The increase is
a result of the actions taken to adopt standards for early childhood development and development of
programs for pre-school education and schooling. The lowest score is Poor 2.11 for sub-subject
“Adoption”. In 2014 the score was 2.43. Report Card 2015 notes that the process of adoption is still not
a priority for the state, goes through complications, is too confusing and is scattered between many
institutions.
218 children and young people had the opportunity to share their point of view for some of the
obligations and recommendations in the document. They took part in four focus-groups and filled in
online survey. Through them their opinion and scores became part of the whole text of the authors of
Report Card 2015, which for second consecutive year gives their voices a platform to be heard.
The scores in Report Card 2015 are:
General principles under the UN Convention on
the rights of the child
3.06
Family and alternative care
2.61
Healthcare
3.31
Education
3.62
Child justice
3.30
Annual score
3.20
“The purpose of the Report Card is to give outer point of view to the politics and experts in the state
institutions and organizations for the way that we all walk in the development of politics for childcare.
This year for the first time the score is 3.20. We always say that the scores themselves are not so
important but is more important to follow the development of the obligations and for all of them we
strive to give solutions and suggestions and to share existing good practices” said Georgi Bogdanov,
Executive Director of the National Network for Children.