child welfare
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CHILD WELFARE :-
services and institutions concerned with the physical, social, and psychologicalwell-being of children, particularly children suffering from the effects of poverty or lacking normal parental care and supervision.
CHILD WELFARE services may apply only the essential measures to keep children alive, such as emergency feeding, shelter, and simple public health precautions. The general standard of living, the level of education, and the financial resources of the country are among the factors that determine child welfare standards.
- The Document also provides for protection of children in difficult circumstances, children with disabilities, children from marginalized and disadvantaged communities, and child victims.
- The document while stipulating the duties of the State and the Community towards children also emphasizes the duties of children towards family, society and the Nation.
-The National Charter for Children was notified in the Gazette of India on 9th Feb., 2014.
- India acceded to the UN convention on the Rights of the Child on 11th Dec., 1992 to reiterate its commitment to the cause of children. The objective of the Convention is to give every child the right to survival and development in a healthy and congenial environment.
- India is also party to the Millennium Development Goals and the SAARC Conventions on Child Welfare and Combating Trafficking of Women and Children in SAARC Region.
National plan of action for children 2005
Women and Child Development has prepared a National Plan of Action for Children 2005 after harmonizing the goals for children set in the UN General Assembly Special Session on Children held in 2002 and the monitorable targets set in the Tenth Five Year Plan, and goals for children in related Ministries/Departments.
The Action Plan has been prepared in consultation with concerned Ministries and Development, State/Union territory Governments, Non Governments Organizations and experts.
The National Plan of Action include goals, objectives, staregies and activities for improving nutritional status of children, reducing drop out rates, universalization of primary education, increasing coverage for immunization etc.
The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 is the primary legal framework for juvenile justice in India. The Act provides for a special approach towards the prevention and treatment of juvenile delinquency and provides a framework for the protection, treatment and rehabilitation of children in the purview of the juvenile justice system.
This law, brought in compliance of Child Rights Convention 1989, repealed the earlier Juvenile Justice Act of 1986 after India signed and ratified Child Rights Convention 1989 in year 1992.
This Act has been further amended in year 2006 and 2010. Government of India is once again contemplating bringing further amendments and a review committee has been constituted by Ministry of Women and Child Development which is reviewing the existing legislation.
3. CHILDLINE SERVICE &
CHILDLINE INDIA FOUNDATION
ChildLine is a free 24 hour counselling service for children.
ChildLine deals with any issue which causes distress or concern, common
issues dealt with include child abuse, bullying, parental separation
or divorce, pregnancy and substance misuse.
ChildLine's intention is to always keep calls confidential. ChildLine counsellors
take action, however the situation, big or small, if they can help. Counsellors do
not record calls but write down case notes of calls and sometimes counselling
supervisors may also listen in to calls to make sure that they can help the best
they can.
INDIA’S INTEGRATED CHILD
PROTECTION SCHEME (ICPS)
ICPS - GOALS
Improve planning and coordination
Institutionalize and strengthen structures, infrastructure
Enhance capacities at all levels
Create a knowledge base
Inter-sectored response
Improve accountability and monitoring
Expand reach
Raise public awareness
ICPS - APPROACHES
Prevention
Family-based care
Continuum of services – feasible care plan for each child
Community based service delivery
Decentralization, flexibility
Partnership, community empowerment
Quality care, standards
Capacity building
ICPS – STATUTORY
SERVICES
Child Welfare Committees (CWC)
Juvenile Justice Boards (JJB)
Special Juvenile Police Units (SJPU)
TRACKCHILD
FOR EXAMPLE
Rescue by CHILDLINE, Police
1st level intervention by CHILDLINE
Medical check, attention by District Health Dept
Trace family – CHILDLINE, Police
CWC - Child Welfare Committees
Placement
Individual care plan include shelter, education, health, counseling, legal
Repatriation, if necessary
Documentation
CHILDLINE 10-9-8
CHILDLINE is India’s first and only 24-hour, free, emergency
phone outreach service for children in need of care & protection.
It is supported by the Government of India’s Ministry for Women
and Child Development.
INDIA’S CHILDREN
19% of the world’s children
1/3 of India’s population
40% estimated as vulnerable to or experiencing difficult circumstances
0.04% of national budget to child protection
CHILDLINE 1098 CHILDREN
Street children
Child addicts
Children needing medical help
Missing children
Abused children
Mentally ill children
Child labourers
HIV/AIDS infected children
Differently-abled children
Child marriages
Information calls: handled by Contact Centre staff
Calls requiring intervention handed over to City Intervention Units
INTERVENTION MODEL
JULY 2013
Incoming calls to 1098
Produce cases before CWC
Assist in implementingCWC order
File FIR if needed
Link to counselling, health, shelter, other
services
Provide SOS assistance: food, medical help,
temporary shelter etc.
Call Response
Investigate to determine action to
be taken
5 CRITICAL CHILDLINE
STRATEGIES
1. Partnership with the Government of India – rights focus, operational autonomy, long-term viability
2. Social franchising model – national reach, quality at minimal overhead/bureaucracy
3. Getting allied systems to play their part – realising rights, ensuring policy implementation, coherence
4. State-of-the-art technology – data-driven decision-making, scale, efficiency combined with localised, human response for sensitivity, personalisation
5. Public-private-civil society collaboration –independence, convening dialogue within and between sectors
CAB
CHILDLINE Advisory Board (CAB) in each city, brings in representatives of all allied systems to collaborate in tackling Child Protection issues.
Police
Healthcare establishments
Educational service organisations
Local, district and state government institutions/depts
Judiciary and legal aid services
Telecom providers
Media
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR
CHILD PROTECTION (NICP).
Mainstream the protection of child rights into all governance systems.
Focus on extensive child rights training to shift the attitude, knowledge and skills of functionaries in the Allied Systems.
Engage in large-scale advocacy to accelerate policy change.
Involved in child budgeting and in seeking amendments of existing laws and the passage of new ones.
Since 2000, over 1100 training sessions organized to train over 100,000 allied systems personnel.
Over 400 training sessions conducted annually across theCHILDLINE cities.
4. Mid-day meal scheme…
National Programme of Nutritional support to
primary education popularly known as mid-day
meal scheme
Mid-day meal scheme started in 1995
Main objectives of mid- day meal scheme:-
To improve the nutritional status of children
in classes one to five in Government Schools
and Government aided schools
To encourage children for disadvantaged backgrounds to
attend schools regularly also to concentrate in school
activities.
To provide nutritional support to students in drought- ridden
areas through out summer vacation.
The mid-day meal programme is carried
out by local authorities with assistance
from village Panchayats…
• Child labour is the practice of having children engage in economic activity, on part or full time basis.
•Vast majority of child labour is found in rural settings and informal urban economy.
CAUSES OF CHILD LABOUR
Poverty
Lack of affordable schools.
Growth of informal economy.
The child labour practice deprives children of their childhood, and is harmful to their physical and mental development.
RECENT INITIATIVES…
The Commission for Protection of the Child Rights Act 2005
Notified by the Government in the Gazette of India on 20 Jan,
2006
Commission set up for the proper enforcement of children's rights
and effective implementation of laws and programmes related to children.
Commission consisted of a chairperson and six other members
including women members, a Member Secretary and other supporting
staff.
FUNCTIONS OF THE COMMISSION…
The functions of the Commission are :-
Examine and review the safeguards provided by Constitution for
protection of child rights.
Present annual reports to the Central Government
Examine all factors that inhibit the enjoyment of rights of children in
need of special care and protection
To promote research in the field of child rights
To spread child rights among various sections of the society
State Commission for protection of Child Rights…
The State Governments constitute state commission for protection of child rights in
their state and designate a state level and other district level children’s court in their
respective state.
Offences against children [prevention] bill…
Child abuse involves several aspects such as sexual exploitation, economic
exploitation, domestic violence, trafficking for prostitution, corporal punishment at
school and others.
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