Over half of Poles assess the current situation in the labour market in Poland well or very well, as results from the April report of the Public Opinion Research Center. In comparison, in 2014 only every fifth respondent was of such an opinion. “Currently, opinions in this scope are the best in the history” – we read in the study.

The “Family 500+” programme is already 3 years old. It supports over 3.6 million children. Due to this programme as much as PLN 67 billion was allocated to families.

One of the biggest changes announced in the New Five is the extension of the flagship governmental programme of the United Right – “Family 500+” – per each child. There are consultations pending on the bill of the amendment to the act on state assistance in raising children. What is going to change, what are the deadlines for submitting applications, how much does it cost? You will find answers to those and other questions below.

Discounted tickets to theatres and cinemas, free entries to national parks, cheaper treatments in health centres – all of these are offered by organisers who joined the Large Family Card. Let us remind that as of the beginning of the year, the discounts can be used by seniors who at any point in time provided for three children.

Year after year, the number of care service users grows. In 2016, there were more than 94,000 users and in 2017 - over 100,000. “Development of care services is a chance for longer life in better health. Although this is the duty of local governments, the State government supports them through such programmes as 75+ Care”, said on Wednesday Minister Elżbieta Rafalska at the Prime Minister’s Chancellery.

Chile, Argentina, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan – these countries can already be visited by young Poles thanks to the “Working Holiday” programme. In total, they are at a disposal of a package of 1.5 thousand visas.

Problems faced in everyday life by both, the deaf and translators of the Polish Sign Language, as well as a project of solutions concerning translators’ certification constitute the main points of the Thursday meeting of the Polish Board of Sign Language (Polska Rada Języka Migowego) at the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy with the Minister, Elżbieta Rafalska and the Vice-Minister, Krzysztof Michałkiewicz.

Today, the Mother 4+ governmental programme started. Many years of work to the benefit of family and the effort of bringing up at least four children obtain a real value in a form of the parental supplementary benefit Mother 4+.

More and more persons with disabilities are professionally active. The situation is still not perfect, but both, the professional activity rate and the employment rate reached record values in the third quarter of the last year. Despite trends being positive, professional activation of persons with disabilities remains quite a challenge.

The unemployment remains at a record low level, fewer and fewer people are professionally passive and the registers of employment of the long-term unemployed are shrinking much faster than the Union average. We analysed the labour market trends in the last three years.