Department of Demography
Contact to the department:
telephone number: +48 538 117 490
e-mail: sekretariat.bpd@mrpips.gov.pl
Unit description:
The Department of Demography ensures that tasks relating to demography and tasks relating to the support of the family, foster care and adoption, as well as the Large Family Card, are carried out.
The tasks of the Department include:
- preparing solutions, assumptions, programmes, strategies in the area of demography;
- implementing provisions contained in legal acts regulating the area of demography within the competencies of the Minister;
- conducting analyses, studies and evaluations of solutions, in particular legal solutions, within the competence of the Department of Demography;
- promoting and disseminating pro-family culture in cooperation with other departments, institutions and entities;
- initiating and giving an opinion on activities aimed at promoting good practices affecting family development and fertility, in particular those related to the reconciliation of parenthood and work;
- providing substantive support to programmes implemented in the Department of Demography, including administrative proceedings;
- cooperating, within the scope of its jurisdiction, with Statistics Poland, the Government Population Council, scientific and research institutions, opinion polling centres and other institutions;
- cooperating with ministries and central offices, local government units, NGOs and other entities in the development, evaluation, realisation and implementation of legal solutions and good practices concerning demography within the scope of the Minister's competence;
- preparing concepts for institutional and organisational solutions in the field of family support, foster care as well as domestic and foreign adoption;
- coordinating and monitoring tasks in the field of organising care for children in family and institutional forms of foster care and tasks in the field of organising and running adoption centres;
- conducting and monitoring foreign adoptions in accordance with the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption drawn up at The Hague on 29 May 1993, including issuing consents to conduct adoption proceedings;
- conducting administrative proceedings in matters of family support, foster care and adoption;
- developing, implementing and monitoring departmental and governmental programmes in the field of support for families raising children and foster care, as well as initiating research and promotional activities in the field of family support, foster care and adoption;
- organising and coordinating the evacuation of children from Ukraine, including placing groups of minors from foster care and their guardians in facilities on the territory of the Republic of Poland (RP);
- initiating, preparing, drafting and proposing concepts for systemic, normative and organisational solutions in the area of the Large Family Card;
- cooperating with EU countries and with other countries within the scope of the Department's jurisdiction;
- developing assumptions and implementing projects co-financed by EU structural funds, in the area of Department's jurisdiction.