Adaptation Centers for Children
An institution for children with disabilities is a facility that provides social services, and is a medical and social institution, designed for permanent residence of children in need of care, providing domestic and medical services, as well as of social and labor adaptation. In this institution a department or a group with a five or six-day regime may be organized.
Children without parental care – children under 18 years, without the care of one or both parents, in the following cases:
- death of parents (orphans);
- long-term absence of parents;
- deprivation or limitation of parental rights;
- parents deemed missing or disabled (partially incapacitated);
- illness of parents;
- parents are serving time in institutions or detention facilities, deprived of their liberty, either on suspicion of or accused of committing a crime;
- parent’s avoidance of parenting or protection of children’ rights and interests, including parents’ refusal to take their children to and from educational and medical institutions, social protection, and other similar institutions;
- other cases of children without parental care, as specified by the law.
Disabled person – a person who has a health disorder with a disability, caused by illnesses, or injuries (wounds, trauma, concussions), resulting in limitations to daily life that require his/her social protection.
Disabled child – a person under 18 years of age, who has a health disorder with a disability, caused by illnesses or injuries (wounds, trauma, concussions), resulting in limitations to daily life that require his/her social protection.
Residential Institutions for children – children's homes, social and pedagogical institutions, boarding schools for orphans and children without parental care, auxiliary boarding schools, special general education boarding schools, specialised educational institutions, special medical-educational institutions, and other residential institutions for children.
An institution for children with disabilities is a facility that provides social services, and is a medical and social institution, designed for permanent residence of children in need of care, providing domestic and medical services, as well as of social and labor adaptation. In this institution a department or a group with a five or six-day regime may be organized.
Adaptation Centers for Children
2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
Number of children in adaptation centers , total | 4 795 | 6 286 | 6 174 | 6 356 | 7 648 | 7 109 | 7 539 | 6 953 | 6 137 | 2 636 | 2 109 |
Reason: | |||||||||||
without parental care or its substitute | 680 | 1 203 | 1 098 | 1 078 | 991 | 1 010 | 937 | 970 | 937 | 472 | 518 |
unsupervised children and adolescents | 4 027 | 4 969 | 5 013 | 5 120 | 6 472 | 5 843 | 6 306 | 5 830 | 5 089 | 2 111 | 1 556 |
directed to special educational organizations for children with deviant behavior | 88 | 114 | 63 | 92 | 83 | 139 | 207 | 103 | 81 | 28 | 19 |
children in a difficult life situation, due to cruel treatment, leading to social maladjustment and social deprivation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 102 | 117 | 89 | 50 | 30 | 25 | 16 |
Out of the total number, children who left adaptation centres , total | 4 483 | 5 984 | 5 801 | 6 110 | 7 376 | 7 001 | 7 231 | 6 685 | 5 970 | 2 153 | 2055 |
Type: | |||||||||||
to parents | 3 642 | 4 950 | 4 909 | 5 173 | 6 579 | 5 907 | 6 274 | 5 871 | 5 111 | 1 825 | 1 662 |
to other organizations for orphans and children without parental care | 634 | 780 | 678 | 687 | 546 | 688 | 578 | 478 | 566 | 226 | 304 |
under trusteeship | 74 | 89 | 66 | 82 | 92 | 136 | 124 | 118 | 89 | 43 | 59 |
to foster care (patronage) | 0 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 25 | 42 | 21 | 30 | 34 | 17 | 3 |
for adoption | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 3 | 0 | 0 |
in foster care | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 0 | 0 |
to a family-based childrenʹs home | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 0 | 0 |
to special educational organizations for children with deviant behavior | 89 | 121 | 74 | 98 | 79 | 115 | 132 | 103 | 113 | 29 | 18 |
to other regions of the Republic of Kazakhstan | 19 | 23 | 34 | 37 | 38 | 44 | 41 | 21 | 21 | 0 | 6 |
to other institutions similar to adaptation centers of minors in other countries | 21 | 18 | 24 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 17 | 13 | 2 |
to other regions of the country | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 6 | 58 | 48 | - | - | 0 | 1 |
Assistance to children, total | 4 795 | 6 286 | 6 174 | 6 356 | 7 648 | 7 109 | 7 539 | 9 529 | 5 970 | 2 596 | 2 096 |
Type: | |||||||||||
by psychologist | 2 397 | 3 143 | 3 087 | 3 178 | 3 824 | 5 087 | 3 770 | 4 776 | 5 970 | 2 410 | 1 691 |
by social pedagogue | 2 398 | 3 143 | 3 087 | 3 178 | 3 824 | 5 107 | 3 769 | 4 753 | 4 589 | 186 | 405 |