On this page:

1. Forthcoming policy developments

2. Ongoing debates

Forthcoming policy developments

Recent legislative initiatives include:​

• Support for Parents of Children with Cancer: allowing parents to be employed as personal assistants during their child's treatment, ensuring job protection.​

• Maternity Risk Leave for Entrepreneurial Mothers: extending maternity risk leave benefits to self-employed women and those in liberal professions.​

• Indexing Child-Rearing Allowances: adjusting child-rearing allowances and related benefits in line with inflation to support young families.​

• Free Access to Pregnancy and Postpartum Monitoring: ensuring timely medical tests for pregnant and postpartum women, regardless of monthly caps at medical facilities.​

Ongoing debates 

Ongoing debates in the field of youth and sports (including sports and well-being for young people) are currently  focusing on a major reform of the administrative structure of the main elements of the youth and sports policy: decentralising most of the youth activities undertaken by the Ministry of Youth and Sports until December 2021. The decentralisation is supposed to include administration of initiatives within the programme ‘Sports for all’ currently under the Ministry of Sports and most of the public sports infrastructure available for young people in Romanian towns. Main actors involved in the debate are  the Ministry of Public Works, Regional Development and Administration and the representatives of local (community and county) public authorities.