Female and male social workers are working with full dedication every day doing a difficult job that requires specialised knowledge and relevant competences, so it must be rewarded accordingly. Thanks to a law adopted today by the Council of Ministers, which will allow the government to create programmes, tools for subsidising salaries, nearly 190,000 people working in these areas will be able to receive an additional PLN 1,000 gross per month since July. This is the result of intensive work in the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance, the entire government and the Prime Minister, for which I sincerely thank them. It is good news on the occasion of the World Social Work Day for this important group of workers, it is also a support for local governments, but above all it is a support for the local government's most needy residents. Decent work is a decent life – in this case, and for this group, this sentence seems particularly true, states Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, the Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy. 

Owing to the solutions contained in the draft, it will be possible to adopt government programmes concerning co-financing for local governments the salaries of employees working under employment contracts in organisational units of social assistance (social assistance centres, district family assistance centres, social services centres, social assistance houses, specialist counselling centres, including family counselling centres, crisis intervention centres, support centres, including support centres for persons with mental disorders, day care homes, homes for mothers with minor children and pregnant women, shelters for the homeless, shelters for the homeless with care services, self-help clubs), foster care and family support system (family assistants, coordinators of family foster care, employees of care and educational institutions, persons employed to assist professional foster families and family-type children's homes on the basis of an employment contract, employees of regional care and therapy centres, employees of intervention pre-adoption centres, employees of day-care support institutions), institutions for care of children aged up to 3 years run by local governments (nurseries, children's clubs, day carers).

Funding will also be provided for the costs of salary contributions. The new regulations will provide the legal basis for the Council of Ministers to adopt government programmes and will set out their general conditions, while the rules for the implementation and settlement of the allocated funds will be defined in the individual programmes.

The draft law adopted today by the Council of Ministers will now go to parliament for legislative work.