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The Social Welfare Workforce Strengthening Conference: Investing in Those Who Care for Children, held in Cape Town, South Africa in 2010, is often recognized as the launch of a global movement to strengthen the social service workforce and to develop stronger, more effective social service systems. The conference, supported by the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), brought together 18 country teams drawn from government, non-governmental organizations, professional associations and higher education institutions to share experiences of the challenges facing the…
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The enactment of new legislations and policies and establishment of proper implementation agencies are considered the fundamental elements of modernisation. Likewise, in India, the child welfare sector is witnessing a paradigm shift after the implementation of juvenile justice acts and the establishment of Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS). The policy documents suggest that institutionalisation of a child must be the last resort; hence, the ideal situation is deinstitutionalising children from institutions to other care facilities. Childcare staff have to intervene…
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The urgent need to strengthen the child protection system in India is presented in the context of the Integrated Child Protection Scheme and relevant juvenile justice legislation. Although the whole system is discussed, from national to local levels, the emphasis is on systems development with a comprehensive social work education response. Included are recommendations to develop a professional association of social work educators and the need for national accreditation of social work education in India. A multi-system analysis with a child rights orientation of child protection…
This important study on foster care practices in India by BOSCO, a Bangalore based organization promoting a non-institutional model of child care and rehabilitation, provides important insight into the history, approaches, challenges and opportunities facing the development of foster care services in the country. It highlights that foster care has a long history in India spanning across five decades, yet despite this there was very little data available about the foster care organizations providing such services and the various models of foster care they practice. This study sought to remedy…
The Government of India has submitted its third and fourth combined report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (dated 26 August 2011), which is due to be examined by the Committee on the Rights of the Child at its 66th Session, taking place in May-June 2014 in Geneva.
For the full report, please visit: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/crcs66.htm
Among information provided by the Government of India relating to children’s care, including sections addressing…
In early 2006 the Department of Women and Child Development became a full-fledged Ministry (the Ministry of Women and Child Development) and all child protection matters were transferred to this new Ministry, including implementation of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000, and its Amendment Act, 2006. The same year the Ministry proposed the adoption of an Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS), which was adopted and launched by the central government in 2009-2010. Recognizing chronic under funding of child protection services in the…
Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, reducing child mortality and achieving all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to health and education are largely dependent on progress in nutrition. If undernutrition is not successfully addressed, it will be difficult to reach the other MDGs. Every year, it is estimated that undernutrition contributes to the deaths of about 5.6 million children under the age of fi ve. One out of every four children under five – or 146 million children in the developing world – is underweight for his or her age, and at increased risk of an early death.…
According to the Juvenile Justice Act for Kerala (a state in India), every police station in the state must have a special juvenile police unit or a child welfare officer (CWO). The unit is tasked with acting as a watchdog and is supposed to be the first line of intervention in cases involving juveniles. The units are responsible for identifying juveniles in conflict with the law and for reporting cases of violence against children, child neglect, child abuse and exploitation.
According to one inspector general who conducts random inspections, in most cases, personnel at the…
A well-supported, appropriately equipped, empowered, and protected social service workforce is essential to mitigating the damaging effects of the COVID19 pandemic. Workforce development is a critical component of the child protection strategy of UNICEF India. The child protection workforce in India includes all categories of people who work on behalf of vulnerable children and families.
The Child Protection Section of UNICEF India has engaged the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance (the Alliance) to map and undertake a comprehensive capacity gap assessment of the existing child…
The Child Protection Section of UNICEF India has engaged the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance (hereafter referred to as ‘the Alliance’) to map and undertake a comprehensive HR (human resources) and capacity gap assessment of the existing child protection workforce in five states in India, and then propose a framework for strengthening this workforce informed by the above, with special emphasis on case management.
The purposes of this project are to:
1. Carry out a workforce mapping, and HR and capacity gap assessment, in five states
2. Develop a comprehensive strategy for…