He stated this during an expanded meeting of the Ministry for Family, Youth and Sports, which is taking place on Tuesday in Kyiv.
The reprimand was issued to the governors of Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Khmelnytskyi, Kharkiv, Ternopil, Sumy, Poltava, Mykolaiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr, Donetsk and Volyn regions.
"These are the regions where not a single family-type home has been created, where there is no development program until the end of the year; I would like to issue a reprimand and a warning about incomplete official compliance to the heads and deputy heads of regional state administrations responsible for social sectors," the president stated.
He also issued a warning about incomplete professional compliance to the deputy governors responsible for social sector issues, in particular, of Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Cherkasy and Chernivtsi regions.
"I ask the ministry to provide a plan for the development of policy on creating family-type homes and foster families," Yushchenko stated.
He reminded that over 8 months, 22,000 108 orphaned children or children left without parental care were registered in Ukraine. Of these, 11,228 children were taken under guardianship, other institutions took in 1,068 children, 860 children were adopted by Ukrainian citizens and 827 by foreigners.
Yushchenko noted that during the current year only 8 family-type children's homes and 28 foster families were created.
Furthermore, according to the head of state, 266 children were accepted into family-type institutions, all the others — 8,850 — were sent to boarding schools. "I cannot accept such a policy. This is not a humane policy, this is an inhumane policy, this is not our policy," Yushchenko said.
Yushchenko also instructed the Ministry of Finance to develop a new scheme for financing orphaned children left without parental care.
"Regardless of status, from 2006 we are allocating funding of 2 subsistence minimums (453 hryvnias) for each child, plus 300 hryvnias for parents (guardians of family-type homes)," Yushchenko stated.
"From January 2006, we must do everything so that funds follow the child. I am instructing the Ministry of Finance to develop this new scheme without any experiments already from 2006," the president stated.
Yushchenko reminded that the 2006 budget plans to increase assistance for caring for children up to 3 years by 20%, assistance at the birth of a child by 30%, and for persons disabled since childhood by 16%.
The president emphasized that appropriate control over the course of these payments must be established. "If these finances fall on the foundation, on the structure that we have, nothing will come of it," the president said.