The head of the Federation Council Committee on Science, Education, and Culture, Lilia Gumerova, proposed creating in Russia a unified system for registering migrant children and establishing responsibility for parents for late informing about the stay of their children in the country, TASS reports.
"We propose to create a unified system for registering children of migrants, a unified database so that we can clearly see how many children have entered Russia, how many left the country, what they are doing, what measures of state social care are needed for them," the Senator said at a meeting of the Council on Interethnic Relations.
According to the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, 140 thousand children of migrants are currently studying in Russian schools. At the same time, as the Senator noted, these data sometimes differ in various departments.
"It seems important, in our opinion, to determine the responsibility of migrants parents for untimely informing about the stay of their children in the territory of Russia. After all, we need to know where these children are, whether they go to a kindergarten, school, or whether they are assigned to a polyclinic," Gumerova said.
The head of the Federation Council committee also proposed determining a single federal executive body that would take over the coordination functions in this area.
According to the senators, proposals for a comprehensive assessment of the migrant children's needs are also reasonable. Their level of the Russian language fluency, general knowledge, and their social portrait can be assessed, Gumerova added.
Another proposal, voiced by the parliamentarian, concerned the issue of complex adaptation of migrant children - from kindergarten, school to their acquisition of a profession in Russia.
In her opinion, such a program will allow obtaining additional qualified workers, taking into account the needs of the labor market, "and will also contribute to the decriminalization of adolescents and youth who are not employed and neither study at school".
The head of the Federation Council on Education also added that having developed these as pilot projects, then they can be "applied on a wider scale."
Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked the Senator for the proposals made.
