This also applies to the 22 285 children in foster care.

18. Calls for more resources to be directed to improvement of orphanages and schools for disadvantaged children and those with special needs, including disabled persons, and to more rapid and effective implementation of the deinstitutionalisation plan, given that Bulgaria has a relatively high percentage of children in care; requests the Commission to undertake research and monitoring on the status of disabled persons living in residential institutions; wishes to encourage changes in the law and practice of adoption to reduce further the number of Bulgarian children adopted internationally and to promote national adoption, including es ...[+++]tablishment of a unified national register for potential adopters, as well as encouraging foster care in line with international best practice; calls for continued reform of psychiatric care; urges also the establishment of a juvenile court system backed by appropriate structures and accommodation;

18. Calls for more resources to be directed to improvement of orphanages and schools for disadvantaged children and those with special needs, including disabled persons, and to more rapid and effective implementation of the deinstitutionalisation plan, given that Bulgaria has a relatively high percentage of children in care; requests the Commission to undertake research and monitoring on the status of disabled persons living in residential institutions; wishes to encourage changes in the law and practice of adoption to reduce further the number of Bulgarian children adopted internationally and to promote national adoption including est ...[+++]ablishment of a unified national register for potential adopters, as well as encouraging foster care in line with international best practice; calls for continued reform of psychiatric care; urges also the establishment of a juvenile court system backed by appropriate structures and accommodation;

4. Where the authority having jurisdiction under Articles 8 to 15 decides to place the child in a foster family, and where such placement is to take place in another Member State and where no public authority intervention is required in the latter Member State for domestic cases of child placement, it shall so inform the central authority or other authority having jurisdiction in the latter State.

110. Considers that the placing of children in care solely on the grounds that they are living in extreme poverty constitutes a violation of fundamental rights; takes the view that, where this cannot be avoided, it should, as far as possible, be regarded as temporary and should seek to achieve the return of the child to its family; believes that the conditions of such care, whether in a foster family or in an institution, and the process aiming at eventual adoption, must respect all the rights of the family and of the child in quest ...[+++]ion; believes that the parents, in particular, must be given help in continuing to exercise their full responsibilities vis-à-vis the child and to maintaining the emotional links necessary for the child's development and well-being;

91. Considers that the placing of children in care solely on the grounds that they are living in extreme poverty constitutes a violation of fundamental rights; takes the view that, where this cannot be avoided, it should, as far as possible, be regarded as temporary and should seek to achieve the return of the child to its family; believes that the conditions of such care, whether in a foster family or in an institution, and the process aiming at eventual adoption, must respect all the rights of the family and of the child in questi ...[+++]on; believes that the parents, in particular, must be given help in continuing to exercise their full responsibilities vis-à-vis the child and to maintaining the emotional links necessary for the child’s development and well-being;