Support for children with disabilities to attend school: ₴1.8 million has been allocated from the Mykolaiv budget

A specialised school bus. Photo: Khmelnytskyi Regional State Administration

In Mykolaiv, a social support service has been provided since the year before last to assist with inclusive education. The city budget funds support for 42 children with disabilities.

Serhii Vasylenko, Director of the Department of Labour and Social Protection of the Mykolaiv City Council, spoke about this during a live broadcast on 22 May, according to NikVesti.

As Serhii Vasylenko explained, the scheme involves assigning a support worker to accompany children with disabilities to nursery or school, where necessary.

«To date, we are funding this service for 42 children. A tender was held, and a contract was signed with the Mykolaiv branch of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society. They are providing this service. So far, over the past four months, 1.8 million hryvnias have been spent from the city budget,» noted the director of the social protection department.

As a reminder, Mykolaiv will receive two specialised school buses. The cost of one bus is 3,899,994 hryvnias. Half of the funding came from the state budget, and half from the local authority budget.

It was also previously reported that in 2025, the Mykolaiv region will be allocated 19.7 million hryvnias in subsidies from the state budget for the purchase of school buses. The buses were to be specially equipped to transport people with reduced mobility, with space for carers and wheelchair seats.