This article discusses the issue of administrative responsibility of legal representatives of minor children for failure to fulfill their duties of upbringing, education and protection. Taking care of children, their physical, intellectual, spiritual and moral development is the main responsibility of parents or other legal representatives. At the same time, the quality of the process of raising children depends primarily on the parents or other legal representatives, on the quality of their fulfillment of their duties for education, health protection, protection of the rights and interests of their children. According to the analysis of practice under Part 1 of Art. 127 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Kazakhstan, issues of the effectiveness of imposing an administrative fine were identified and it was proposed to establish an administrative penalty in the form of a warning, correctional or community service as alternative types of administrative penalties. The necessity of establishing specific criteria in establishing the guilt of legal representatives is analyzed. Such criteria include neglect of the child, neglect of his health, non-compliance with the rules of sanitation, neglect of education, upbringing of the child. At the same time, the increase in the number of offenses among children in recent years requires drastic measures. In this regard, the topic of the need to bring young people to administrative responsibility from the age of 14 was raised.