Year after year, the number of care service users grows. In 2016, there were more than 94,000 users and in 2017 - over 100,000. “Development of care services is a chance for longer life in better health. Although this is the duty of local governments, the State government supports them through such programmes as 75+ Care”, said on Wednesday Minister Elżbieta Rafalska at the Prime Minister’s Chancellery.

Chile, Argentina, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan – these countries can already be visited by young Poles thanks to the “Working Holiday” programme. In total, they are at a disposal of a package of 1.5 thousand visas.

Problems faced in everyday life by both, the deaf and translators of the Polish Sign Language, as well as a project of solutions concerning translators’ certification constitute the main points of the Thursday meeting of the Polish Board of Sign Language (Polska Rada Języka Migowego) at the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy with the Minister, Elżbieta Rafalska and the Vice-Minister, Krzysztof Michałkiewicz.

Today, the Mother 4+ governmental programme started. Many years of work to the benefit of family and the effort of bringing up at least four children obtain a real value in a form of the parental supplementary benefit Mother 4+.

More and more persons with disabilities are professionally active. The situation is still not perfect, but both, the professional activity rate and the employment rate reached record values in the third quarter of the last year. Despite trends being positive, professional activation of persons with disabilities remains quite a challenge.

The unemployment remains at a record low level, fewer and fewer people are professionally passive and the registers of employment of the long-term unemployed are shrinking much faster than the Union average. We analysed the labour market trends in the last three years.

The announced by the Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki and activated in the previous year “Good Start” programme proved to be a hit. Almost all authorised persons benefited therefrom. The benefit – PLN 300 on school supplies – reached 4.4 million of students in total.

“One of the elderly ladies wrote a poem in which she called me an angel. Then I understood the importance of the work we do. We are the only help for many elderly persons in their daily life”, said a care assistant with 15 years of experience. With the 75+ Care programme, municipalities may increase the number of hours of senior citizen services.

They learn to surf the net, cook and attend inter-generational workshops - as part of projects implemented under the Programme for Social Engagement of the Elderly (ASOS).

The centenary of the establishment of the Public Employment Services was celebrated with a festive gala with a participation of the Minister, Elżbieta Rafalska. The most distinguished employment offices were awarded.