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Latvia - Country Profile on the European Semester and COVID-19 crisis

At a national level, there was a lack of a common strategy in the field
of the social protection of children and families. The Ministry of Welfare published a number of guidelines on the subject. Unfortunately, they were too voluminous, abstract and difficult to understand. 

NGO employees were extremely vulnerable, for example many of them were exposed to the virus or lost their jobs; many services were temporarily interrupted.

Read the country profile and the full report.




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