Minister Maląg presented the current state of support addressed to the citizens of Ukraine, which is provided in our country. Currently, there are more than 2.3 million of them here.

Vacancies due to low unemployment

In the opinion of Minister Maląg, the most important thing is long-term support, allowing for the integration of newcomers, including the inclusion of adults in our labour market, and of children in the education system, care for children below three and health care.

– Low unemployment will allow people willing to work to find a job, and the introduced simplifications reduce the required formalities – as Minister Maląg commented on the opening of our labour market. Before 24 February, more than a million Ukrainians worked in Poland. After this date, 17 thousand persons found employment. Here, a very important role is played by public employment services.

There are still vacancies in the IT industry in our labour market, women can find employment in professions related to childcare, and soon in seasonal agricultural work.

Employment, not benefits

Financial support is also needed for the long-term relocation of Ukrainian citizens. Minister Maląg pointed to the need to relocate persons coming to our country from large agglomerations to smaller centres. – Our goal is to reinforce and strengthen the labour market, not to pay unemployment benefits – concluded Minister Marlena Maląg.

Further relocation only with the consent of Ukraine

Deputy Minister Barbara Socha presented the system of care for children coming to Poland – especially in groups from children’s homes or unaccompanied children. She stressed that all measures in this area take place in close consultation with the Ukrainian authorities.

- Groups arriving in Poland are not broken up, if possible, we also leave the existing guardians - said Deputy Minister Socha. For this purpose, we have created a new formula – a „temporary guardian”, supplemented, if necessary, by educational assistants, employed by self-governments. We do not include children in the Polish foster care system. Only single children who arrive here unaccompanied are sent to foster families.

Thanks from the Commission and Europe

The EU Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, Nicolas Schmit, expressed on behalf of himself, the European Commission and the whole of Europe, his appreciation for the measures taken by Poland so far. He stressed the importance of including the children in the education system. – Putin wants to destroy the Ukrainian people, providing children with education is the best way to counter this – said Commissioner Schmit.

He also pointed to the possibility of using already existing financial mechanisms to support the citizens of Ukraine, inter alia, in the labour market.