At this year’s first meeting of the Inter-ministerial Committee for Social Inclusion and Roma Affairs (TFCTB), the measures of Hungary's National Social Inclusion Strategy planned for 2015-2017 were on the agenda.

The Committee also discussed the issues of the role that marketable vocations play in social inclusion and that of establishing the necessary circumstances of mandatory kindergarten attendance as of the age of three.

In order to harmonize government activities, the Inter-ministerial Committee for Social Inclusion and Roma Affairs is engaged in ensuring the coordination of government measures aimed at improving the living conditions and social situation of those living in extreme poverty, and promoting their social integration since 2010. At the first meeting of the year, the Committee discussed the second action plan of Hungary's National Social Inclusion Strategy, including concepts that may offer a comprehensive policy response to the social policy objectives of inclusion. The most important aims of the Strategy are still supporting those most deprived and preventing the transmission of poverty. The most efficient platform for the cooperation between the different fields involved in this matter is provided by the inter-ministerial forum.

The various working groups of the Committee continue to carry out their work in the fields of territorial development, employment and education policy, as well as in those of social policy and health care during the periods between the meetings of the Committee as well, so as to ensure proper preparation of the action plan by incorporating recommendations of the different working groups and by clarifying open issues. The inter-ministerial forum and the working groups will follow up the action plan until its approval and following that, throughout the implementation phase.

(Ministry of Human Capacities)