This sector is in charge of the following: normative and administrative affairs in the first and in the second degree of administrative procedures in the field of social, family and child protection, professional supervision over the work of social welfare institutions, providing technical assistance to the first degree authorities in addressing the rights of its scope, work related to the application and citizen complaints concerning the work of social welfare institutions, providing support for persons with disabilities and other socially marginalized population groups, monitoring and analyzing the needs of the elderly, care of the elderly without family care.

The sector is providing technical assistance concerning development of policies, strategies, programs and projects that are related to the promotion of social, family and child care, business planning and monitoring of socio-demographic research projects that are important for monitoring and analyzing of the social needs of families with children, children in foster care and children placed in institutions, children and youth with physical and mental development problems, monitoring the work training of children and youth who are trained under special conditions, and monitoring and evaluation of alternative forms of care for persons in need.

Through the scope of work of this sector, cooperation is realized with professional and academic institutions, social and international organizations that have their activities directed to the social, family and child protection, implementation of international conventions and recommendations, assessment and evaluation of completed projects, launching new projects and more.

Internal organizational units of sector for social, family and child protection are:

a) Department for Social Protection

b) Department for Family and Child Protection