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Child care homes Study
Why is it in the news?
- The Government has conducted a pan-India survey of childcare institutions (CCI).
- The survey has highlighted the poor safety and security measures, inadequate monitoring of these facilities, and a lack of effort to trace parents of missing children sent to these homes.
More in the news
- The full report of the survey titled ‘Mapping and Review Exercise of Child Care Institutions’, has recently made public by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD).
- Some of the findings of this exercise were shared last year before the Supreme Court, which took suo motu cognisance of rampant child abuse at a shelter in Muzaffarpur in Bihar.
- The detailed report shows that only 28.7% centres were able to tend to inmates showing signs of hunger or illness and 65.9% of homes were able to actively supervise children under trauma.
- Lack of infrastructure facilities is “glaring” and finds that more than 1,000 homes did not have a dormitory for children, raising questions about sleeping arrangements made for them.
- Also, several mechanisms for monitoring, regular inspections of these shelters were not being carried out.
Source
The Hindu.