Article 18. Competence of local executive bodies of regions, cities of republican significance and the capital of the Social Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan

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Local executive bodies of regions, cities of republican significance, and the capital ensure the implementation of state policy in the field of social protection by:

1) analysis, forecasting of labor supply and demand in the region and cities of republican significance, the capital, and informing the authorized state body;

2) approval and implementation of regional employment maps;

3) carrying out activities to promote employment of the population;

4) monitoring organizations with risks of job release and reduction;

5) support for job creation through the development of entrepreneurial initiatives;

6) monitoring the provision of social assistance to the unemployed and job seekers;

7) establishment of a quota of jobs for persons with disabilities in the amount of two to four percent of the number of jobs, excluding jobs in heavy work, work with harmful, dangerous working conditions;

8) approval of regulations on district (city) and regional commissions on employment issues;

9) monitoring job creation within the framework of national projects, regional development plans, cities of national importance, the capital, and regional employment maps;

10) approval of the list of settlements for voluntary resettlement of persons to increase labor mobility;

11) appointment and dismissal of the head of the Labor mobility center;

12) interaction with individuals and legal entities and government agencies on the provision of special social services;

13) creation and activity of entities providing special social services under their jurisdiction;

14) provision by entities providing special social services of a guaranteed volume of special social services;

15) conducting an analysis of the population's need for special social services;

16) ensuring statistical analysis and forecasting of the population's need for special social services;

17) organization of personnel support for entities providing special social services, professional training, retraining and advanced training of social workers;

18) taking measures to develop the system of providing special social services;

19) developing and submitting for approval to local representative bodies of oblasts (cities of republican significance and the capital) a list and procedure for the provision of over-guaranteed volume of special social services;

20) carrying out public procurement, as well as placing a state social order for the provision of special social services and services for assessing and determining the need for special social services;

21) creation of state institutions and enterprises providing rehabilitation for persons with disabilities;

22) provision of additional social assistance measures for persons with disabilities provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

23) facilitating the creation of organizations providing rehabilitation for persons with disabilities;

24) organization of vocational training (retraining) of persons with disabilities in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

25) organization of training, retraining and advanced training of specialists in the rehabilitation of persons with disabilities, including sign language specialists, specialists in reading and writing in relief-dotted Braille;

26) organizations in the relevant territory performing medical, social, and vocational rehabilitation in accordance with this Code;

27) providing sanatorium-resort treatment for persons with disabilities and children with disabilities in accordance with an individual program;

28) providing persons with disabilities with technical auxiliary (compensatory) means and (or) special means of transportation in accordance with an individual program;

29) monitoring the characteristics of goods and (or) services provided to persons with disabilities through the social services portal declared by the supplier for compliance with the classifier of technical auxiliary (compensatory) means, special means of transportation and services provided to persons with disabilities;

30) organization of cultural, educational and other events jointly with public associations of persons with disabilities;

31) coordinating the provision of charitable and social assistance to persons with disabilities;

32) ensuring the activities of the regional coordinating council in the field of social protection of persons with disabilities;

33) security:

monitoring the provision of special social services in the field of healthcare;

conducting an analysis of the population's needs for special social services in the field of healthcare;

34) coordinating the activities of healthcare organizations in the provision of special social services in the field of healthcare;

34-1) coordination of work to reach people (families) in difficult life situations with comprehensive support within the competence of state bodies in accordance with the procedure determined by the authorized state body;

34-2) maintaining medical and social records in accordance with the procedure determined by the authorized state body;

IZPI's note! Article 18 is provided to be supplemented by sub-paragraphs 34-3) and 34-4) in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 30.06.2025 No. 204-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).

34-3) reimbursement of the cost of services for the transportation of persons with disabilities on an invataxi from the local budget according to the methodology for determining the guaranteed amount provided as compensation for the cost of goods and (or) services, services for the transportation of persons with disabilities on an invataxi purchased by persons with disabilities through the social services portal;

34-4) organization of services for the transportation of persons with disabilities on invataxi through the social services portal or in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on public procurement;

35) exercising, in the interests of local government, other powers assigned to local executive bodies of regions, cities of republican significance and the capital by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The Social Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated April 20, 2023

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