Tbilisi. Public Defender of Georgia addressed the Constitutional Court of Georgia with the Constitutional Complaint and requested to find unconstitutional provisions of the Order N145 of the Government of Georgia on the "Social Assistance” of July 28, 2006, which determines financial subsidies for child reintegration and foster care. According to the impugned act, on return of child to the biological family, reintegration allowance amounts GEL 90 – in case of healthy child and GEL 130 - in case of child with disabilities.  If a child will be placed in foster care, instead of returning him/her to the biological family, reimbursement amounts Gel 15 per calendar days (Gel 450-465 per month) – in case of healthy child and Gel 20 per calendar day (Gel 600-620) – in case of child with disabilities. 

"Public defender of Georgia considers that if the state’s declared aim is the deinstitutionalization of a child and prevention of their abandonment in the framework of the child welfare reform, it is clear that offering poorer conditions to a biological family than to foster parents is not a reasonable means of achieving the goal".

Source: ombudsman.ge