In Irkutsk Region, families raising eight or more children will for the first time receive minibuses at the regional budget expense, four families will get them this fall. Also, a Best Family Homestead contest will be held among large families with five or more children, and 110 families will receive 50 thousand rubles each. Minister Vladimir Rodionov also spoke about equal support for foster and large families and plans to create an interagency support service for abused children.

This year, for the first time, minibuses will be purchased at the expense of the regional budget for families with eight or more children, including those raising orphans. In the autumn of this year, 4 families will receive vehicles. To this end, the ministry made amendments to the long-term targeted program of the Irkutsk Region, “Social Support of the Population of the Irkutsk Region” for 2009-2013. Also in the Angara region, among large families raising five or more children, the “Best Family Homestead” competition will be held. Based on its results, 110 families will receive 50,000 rubles each.
According to Vladimir Rodionov, Minister of Social Development, Guardianship and Trusteeship of the Irkutsk Region, foster families and large families in the region have an almost equal set of social benefits. The minister reminded that, by order of the President of Russia, families in these categories should receive the same measures of state support.
– Such practice has long been implemented in the Irkutsk Region. We will only have to resolve issues concerning preferential land allocation for families with foster children, and the transport tax benefit, the head of the department noted.
The minister also noted that in the Angara region it is planned to create a service for interdepartmental cooperation on the rehabilitation and support of children who have been subjected to abuse. The coordinating body will operate on the basis of the regional state autonomous educational institution for children in need of psychological, pedagogical, and medical-social assistance, the “Center for Psychological, Medical, and Social Support.” The service will include social educators and educational psychologists.
Based on materials from the press service of the Government of the Irkutsk Region