Prague will set up a community facility for 16 children instead of an infant institute
The plan was approved by city councilors today. The aim is for children to live in an environment that is closest to family life. Infant institutions will cease to exist as a result of a new law from 2025, and Prague community facilities will be designated for those covered by the exemption.
Services for and child and children’s home Chartty Masaryk Masaryk Center aged one to six years, and in particular provides physically to children this care or their care, are seriously endangered by their lives and seriously endangered. The home is already run by two households, the other two should open by the end of the year. In every household, two caring adults will take care of the children.
The change responds to an amendment to the law approved last year, according to which children under the age of three will not be able to be placed in institutional care from 2025. An exception will apply to children with severe disabilities and to children placed in sibling experiences in school children’s homes, which is precisely the case of the home in Zbraslav.
“Even children who fail to return to their families or find alternative family care need to have access to individualized residential care. That is why we already provide chamber and individualized support for very vulnerable children, which is possible only in an environment that works most like a normal household, “said Councilor Milena Johnová (Prague Sobě).
The director of the home, Radka Soukupová, added that even though the new legislation introduced the need to abolish infant institutions and children’s homes, usually under the age of three, there will always be those for which foster parents cannot be found. “The creation of 16 places will make it possible to satisfy this demand according to the new Prague standard, which responds to the specific needs of children and stipulates that a maximum of four children, one of whom is a child with a disability, will live in the apartment,” she said.