Upon learning from the media that Social Welfare Center Malo Crniće, assisted by the police and with a judge present, removed a five-year-old child from the parents due to poverty, the Protector of Citizens initiated investigations to control work legality and regularity of the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy and the local center.
The Protector of Citizens has requested the competent ministry to submit a report on the actions pertinent to this case, as well as the minutes and copies of documentation on the monitoring over the work of the Social Welfare Center Malo Crniće in this case, within 15 days at the latest.
The Protector of Citizens has requested the competent center to notify him within the same deadline, with all the accompanying documentation, about the activities related to the family, with special reference to the procedure of removing the child from the family.