More and more children with special educational needs learn in schools. According to the data of the National Statistics Bureau, the index has risen by almost 70-per-cent in last 5 years.

The change is due to the educational institutions that are more and more adapted to the necessities of students with special needs.

Over 10 thousand children with such needs have been registered to study during 2016-2017. In the last 5 years, the index has risen by over 2,200 persons.

Last year, almost 12,000 children with special needs have benefited from social allocations, of which almost 44-per-cent with severe disabilities. The allocations was of 503 lei.