child welfare in india

The core child protection legislation for children is enshrined in four main laws: The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act (2000, amended in 2015); The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act (2006); The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (2012), and The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act (1986 ...

Child Protection Services is Government of India’s (GoI’s) flagship programme to provide preventive and statutory care, and rehabilitation services to children in need of care and protection and those in conflict with the law as defined under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.

This brief uses government data to analyse CPS performance along the following parameters:

Trends in overall GoI allocations, releases and expenditures;
State wise GoI releases and expenditures;
Child Care Institutes (CCIs) and beneficiaries;
Registered cases of crimes against children.

Child Welfare Committee

For the Children in need and care of protection, State Government may, by notification in Official Gazette, constitute for every district or group of districts, specified in the notification, one or more Child Welfare Committees for exercising the powers in relation to child in need of care and protection under this Act.

The Committee shall consist of a Chairperson and four other members, of whom at least one shall be a woman and another, an expert on matters concerning children. The Committee shall function as a Bench of Magistrates.

A child in need of care and protection is produced before CWC for being placed in safe. The Committee has the final authority to dispose of cases for the care,protection,treatment,development and rehabilitation of the children as well as to provide for their basic needs and protection of human rights.

Any child in need of care and protection may be produced before the committee by one of the following persons:-

• Any police officer or special juvenile police unit or a designated police officer;
• Any public servant;
• Child line, a registered voluntary organization or by such other voluntary organization or an agency as may be recognized by the State Government;
• Any social worker or a public spirited citizen authorized by the State Government; or
  By the child himself.
• For care, protection, treatment, development and rehabilitation of the children in need of care and protection, the state has following semi govt. children/shelter Homes: