Governmental Office for National Minorities is responsible for the implementation and monitoring of the mentioned strategic documents. The Action Plan further details the National Program for the Roma in 4 areas: education, health care, employment and housing/infrastructure. Education component aims to include Roma children and youth in all level of education system and support them in order to improve their inclusion in society. The programme of pre-school education is intended to encompass as many of Roma children as possible and thus create the precondition for their successful learning in primary school. The Ministry of Science, Education and Sports set-up the network of Roma assistants whose main task is to intermediate between the Roma community and the school in joint efforts for the improvement of education of Roma children in schools and their integration in school environment. Concerning the inclusion of Roma children in education system the improvement has been achieved through different measures: by increasing the number of Roma children enrolled in preschool education, primary and secondary education including the vocational education, by ensuring the scholarships for all Roma students in secondary and tertiary education, by ensuring the fees for those Roma adults who are included in adult education, by ensuring free of charge the accommodation in dormitories for secondary and tertiary Roma scholars, as well as free of charge transport for all primary and secondary Roma scholars, including the Roma students in higher education. Within the overall education system 3.628 scholars who belong to Roma national minority in 2007 were included in education system. The data are relating to those who declared themselves as belonging to Roma minority. 4. Curriculum The Ministry of Science, Education and Sports developed and adopted the new curriculum for primary schools in 2006 which is based on the Education Sector Development Plan 2005-2010 and the Croatian National Education Standard. Among other components the curriculum introduces the new student oriented approach to learning and teaching process in education. The new curriculum in minorities’ languages for primary and secondary education has been in the process of developing for three models (A, B, C) previously mentioned. 137 teachers in minorities’ languages were engaged in working groups and 200 minorities’ teachers participated during the process of curriculum development. 5. Teacher training The Government is responsible for the professional, pedagogic and psychological training of teachers, i.e. their pre-service and in-service training. During 2007/2008 academic year the Teacher Training Agency organised 25 seminars for teachers in the languages of national minorities (11 seminars for teachers in Serbian, 4 in Hungarian, 4 in Italian, 5 in Czechs, 1 in Slovak). Within the Teacher Training Agency there are 6 permanently employed counsellors specialized for offering their services to minorities’ teachers regarding specific issues concerning the education in the minorities’ language. The Ministry of Science, Education and Sports also supports the teacher training programs organised by minority NGOs and training of teachers and their study visits to the country of the respective minority language. 6. Textbooks