Abstract:
The article is devoted to revealing some problems of legal regulation of
social rehabilitation of children who suffered as a result of military actions and armed
conflicts, and development of proposals on improvement of social‐protection legislation and
normative‐legal acts on labor protection.
The author’s vision of the impact of the types of status of a child who suffered as a result
of military actions and armed conflicts on the quality of the content, absence of payment for
social rehabilitation measures guaranteed by the state.
Analysis of the current social‐protection legislation and normative‐legal acts on
children's protection allowed the author to determine types of official status of a child who
suffered as a result of military actions and armed conflicts, according to which the state
provides either comprehensive or partial social integration (rehabilitation): 1) "a person
under the age of 18 who has received disability due to health damage in the territory of
antiterrorist operation, carrying out measures to ensure national security and defense in
Donetsk and Luhansk regions; 2) "a child who suffered as a result of military actions and
armed conflicts"; 3) "a child with disability who suffered from explosive objects". According to
these kinds of children's status, the state is obliged to carry out social rehabilitation of
children at the legislative level. Also, the state has established additional types of children's
status, which are also legally fixed in connection with military events in Ukraine since 2014.
However, social rehabilitation issues for them are governed by the state in a fragmented
manner, and greater powers to regulate these issues are transferred to local governments,
which often lack funds from local budgets. Such types of children's status include: 1) "a child
of internally displaced persons"; 2) "a child who is in the zone of military actions and armed
conflicts".
It is proposed to develop a comprehensive state program on social rehabilitation of
children affected by military actions and armed conflicts at the legislative level, taking into
account all their respective statuses, enshrined in the social protection and child protection
legislation.
