On 23 November, Minister Elżbieta Rafalska met with Jonathan Knott, Ambassador of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Poland.

On 22 November 2016, the Agreement between the Republic of Poland and the State of Israel on social security was signed in Jerusalem. On the Polish side, the Agreement was signed by Elżbieta Rafalska, Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy.

“Social worker is a profession that requires heart, it is mission and a service,” Prime Minister Beata Szydło said on the Social Worker Day. 21 November is the holiday of all workers of social services, and in particular of social workers. 

Around 9.2% of children under the age of 3 are covered by care. Around 3.4 thousand facilities which provide about 93.5 thousand places of care for the youngest are operating in Poland.

“Three pillars of our programme, that were filled with successive implementation of commitments every day our work, is family, development and security,” Prime Minister Beata Szydło said at the conference summing up the first year of rule of Law and Justice.

Family 500 plus, the increase in the minimum wage, introduction of the hourly minimum wage and reconstruction of social dialogue are just some of the changes that have taken place over the last year. We summarise a year of functioning of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.

Between 7 and 9 November, Minister Elżbieta Rafalska went on a visit to Budapest. She met with Zoltán Balog, Minister of Human Resources of Hungary. 

Poland comes 4th out of 28 countries of the European Union in terms of family support, according to the report of the PwC “Family tax reliefs and benefits in the EU countries.”

The third meeting of the Youth Guarantee Monitoring Team took place in the “Dialog” Centre for Social Partnership. 

On 27 October, Minister Elżbieta Rafalska and Secretary of State Krzysztof Michałkiewicz met with Zornitsa Russinova, Minister of Labour and Social Policy of Bulgaria.