PARENTS are to be obliged to provide constant supervision by an adult for children aged under 10 in a family environment, and for an adult to accompany children aged under 14 outside home, the National Assembly has decided.
The measures are in terms of amendments to the Child Protection Act.
The Cabinet will set policy on child protection, according to the amendments.
National Movement Simeon II MP Juliana Doncheva said that parents would have to ensure they knew where their children were, and what do they were doing in the late hours of the day.
She said there are no parents were not interested in where their children were.
According to the first draft of the amendments, parents who leave their children unattended will have to pay a fine varying from 50 to 500 leva.
The State Child Protection Agency started operating in January 2001. The main tasks of the agency are to decrease the number of children living without a family in child shelters and to create and maintain an information system for children belonging to high-risk groups. Another duty of the agency is to carry out a policy for the prevention of abandoning of children and child abuse.
Protection of gifted children will be regulated by an ordinance issued by the Cabinet, based on the recommendations of the Ministers of Culture, Education and Science, and Youth and Sport. The ordinance is to provide measures for encouraging the development of artistic talents and for the enrolment of talented children in arts and sports schools.
Parliament approved a proposal by Evgenia Zhivkova, MP from the Coalition for Bulgaria, to put the Interior Ministry in charge of child protection.
The chairperson of the State Agency for the Protection of Children will be the specialist body in charge of the management, co-ordination and control of activities related to the protection of children. One of the chairperson's duties will be to help the formulation and implementation of EU integration policies in the field of child protection.
Preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute, released by Yordan Kalchev, Head of Demographic and Social Statistics, Population and Population Centre, said that in 2002 the child mortality rate was high in Bulgaria, at 13.2 for every 1000 live births.
The measures are in terms of amendments to the Child Protection Act.
The Cabinet will set policy on child protection, according to the amendments.
National Movement Simeon II MP Juliana Doncheva said that parents would have to ensure they knew where their children were, and what do they were doing in the late hours of the day.
She said there are no parents were not interested in where their children were.
According to the first draft of the amendments, parents who leave their children unattended will have to pay a fine varying from 50 to 500 leva.
The State Child Protection Agency started operating in January 2001. The main tasks of the agency are to decrease the number of children living without a family in child shelters and to create and maintain an information system for children belonging to high-risk groups. Another duty of the agency is to carry out a policy for the prevention of abandoning of children and child abuse.
Protection of gifted children will be regulated by an ordinance issued by the Cabinet, based on the recommendations of the Ministers of Culture, Education and Science, and Youth and Sport. The ordinance is to provide measures for encouraging the development of artistic talents and for the enrolment of talented children in arts and sports schools.
Parliament approved a proposal by Evgenia Zhivkova, MP from the Coalition for Bulgaria, to put the Interior Ministry in charge of child protection.
The chairperson of the State Agency for the Protection of Children will be the specialist body in charge of the management, co-ordination and control of activities related to the protection of children. One of the chairperson's duties will be to help the formulation and implementation of EU integration policies in the field of child protection.
Preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute, released by Yordan Kalchev, Head of Demographic and Social Statistics, Population and Population Centre, said that in 2002 the child mortality rate was high in Bulgaria, at 13.2 for every 1000 live births.
