On November 9, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. The issue of legislative restriction of movement for obligated persons is being initiated in the Vitebsk region, as reported to BELTA correspondent by Tamara Olekhnovich, Deputy Chairperson of the Commission for Juvenile Affairs of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee. At the last meeting of the regional coordination council for monitoring compliance with the requirements of Decree No. 18, the main justice department and the internal affairs department of the regional executive committee were instructed to prepare proposals for the Ministries of Justice and Internal Affairs of Belarus on the need to legally provide for the possibility of restricting the freedom of movement of negligent parents who are employed by court order under forced labour and maliciously violate labour discipline. "All obligated persons in the region are employed. At the same time, their monthly wage fund is 1.22 times higher than the amount of funds to be reimbursed. The problem in this case remains the violation of labour discipline: in September alone, absenteeism by 803 obligated persons amounted to about 8.4 thousand man-days, including 345 absentees who were absent from work for more than 10 days," explained Tamara Olekhnovich. As of October 1, there are 3.6 thousand obligated persons residing in the Vitebsk region. Of these, 2.8 thousand are employed, 534 are in places of detention and therapeutic labour centres, 95 are wanted, and 27 are on childcare leave. About 60 people are maliciously evading reimbursement of expenses for child maintenance. Over the past 9 months, courts in the region have recovered about Br17.6 billion from negligent parents, or 62.9% of the planned accrued amount. As of October 1 this year, 4.3 thousand children from 2.6 thousand families were in a socially dangerous situation. Commissions for juvenile affairs recognised 451 children from 275 families as in need of state protection and removed them from negligent parents. After rehabilitation measures, more than 290 minors (from 173 families) returned to their families.