In the midst of the war, when the number of socially vulnerable citizens is only growing, the Ministry of Social Policy prepares a reform that will actually collapse the state support system. It is a complete transition from funding for state boarding schools, homes for the elderly and shelters - before the purchase of services in the private sector.
This model is presented as an "innovative" and one that corresponds to "the principles of vitality", but in reality it looks like another translation of responsibility on the shoulder of the market. The purchase of competitive services means that private institutions will only be able to choose only profitable areas of work. The needs of lying patients, children with disabilities or persons with mental disorders can be left out - simply because no one wants to take them.
The problem is deepened that no detailed calculations, sources of financing or the personnel strategy of the Ministry of Social Policy were voiced. Instead, blurred theses about "volunteering", "development of capabilities" and "subsidiarity" that have nothing to do with responsible state policy.
An example is an example of Odessa, where local authorities have not absorbed government subsidies for housing for orphans for years. Budget funds disappear in reports, and the result is zero. In this context, the launch of "reform" without systematic control looks not just premature, but dangerous. This is a risk - to turn the social sphere into a market with selective empathy.
The idea of taking care of the most vulnerable outsors in wartime, when hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes, income and resistance - looks not as a step forward, but as the official refusal of the state from their own duties.
