Meeting of the State Council Commission on Social Policy

The meeting
was held via videoconference and was attended by Federation Council Deputy Speaker Inna Svyatenko,
First Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection Olga Batalina, Deputy
Minister of Sports Alexei Morozov as well as representatives of the scientific
community and the public.
They
discussed preparation of new national projects. As per the presidential
instruction of April 10, 2024, the Government shall work out the main
principles of developing new national projects, approaches to devising a system
of managing such projects and defining the mechanisms for their co-financing
with due account of each project’s specifics and submit the relevant materials
to the Presidential Executive Office and the State Council’s commissions. In his opening remarks Igor Levitin Levitin IgorAdviser to the President, Special Presidential Representative for International Cooperation in Transport outlined the tasks and the order of work to fulfill the instruction.
Olga
Batalina focused in her report on the Family national project and the implementation
of the Presidential Executive Order of January 23, 2024, On Measures of Social
Support for Large Families.
Chairman of the State Council Commission on Social Policy, Novgorod Region Governor Andrei
Nikitin Nikitin AndreiGovernor of Novgorod Region stressed the importance of implementing the tasks, identified by the President in his address to the Federal Assembly, in particular, to support reproductive
health and large families.
The meeting participants presented the best family
policy practices followed in the regions.