title: Decree creating a childhood fund, 9 May 1988.
abstract: This Decree creates a childhood fund within the budget of the German-speaking Community of Belgium.  The Fund is to cover the expenses necessary for the accomplishment of the following: 1) exercising and promoting activities responding to the needs of families, mothers, and children, notably those who are particularly threatened; 2) approving, subsidizing, or creating, as the case may be, undertakings, institutions, and services; exercising over them administrative and technical control; and furnishing them with aid and counseling; 3) sustaining and organizing initiatives in the area of prevention and education, seeing these through to a successful conclusion, and collecting documentation on all the concerned subjects; 4) requesting advice on all questions relating to the protection of mother and child; 5) organizing the supervision of children less than seven years old housed outside of their family setting and taking care of them; and 6) ensuring the training and informing of concerned persons, notably parents.  The Decree also provides that no one may house children under the age of seven for payment without prior authorization.  Such children may be housed free-of-charge by notifying certain official bodies and agreeing to certain medical and social controls.  Relatives to the fourth degree and legal representatives of such children may house them free-of-charge without complying with these requirements.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001519:Behavior; D001530:Belgium; D002648:Child; D002654:Child Care; D002668:Child Rearing; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004493:Education; D005060:Europe; D016656:Family Planning Policy; D005843:Geography; D006798:Housing; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011640:Public Policy; D012111:Residence Characteristics
keywords: Age Factors; Behavior; Belgium; Child; Child Care--legal aspects; Child Rearing; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Education; Europe; Family Policy; Geographic Factors; Housing--legal aspects; Legislation; Parenting Education--legal aspects; Policy; Population; Population Characteristics; Residence Characteristics; Social Policy; Social Protection; Spatial Distribution; Western Europe; Youth