Supreme Court; Social-legal Protection of Children; Judicial Decision; Institutional care

The contribution focuses on the issues interconnected with institutional care and related social-legal protection of children in the Czech Republic and introduces within the legal context of the newly adopted Opinion of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic and the judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Right.

The contribution focuses on the issues interconnected with institutional care and related social-legal protection of children in the Czech Republic and introduces within the legal context of the newly adopted Opinion of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic and the judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Right. The first part deals with opinion of the Supreme Court in Czech Republic, presents current valid legislative in the field of placing children in the institutional care and solve problem of material poverty of the family. The second part of the contribution offers a description of the system of institutional care in the Czech Republic and presents a brief characteristic of the individual establishments providing care to children and young people without family background within the areas of responsibility of the individual government departments. This part furthermore looks at the reasons why children are place into institutional care and the ways in which children are accepted into establishments providing it.