District Child Protection Plan Template – By Catholic Relief Services
From Risk to Resilience – By Poonam Rai, Miracle Foundation, India
Sponsorship and Foster Care Approval Committee : Guidebook for Training and Capacity Building – By IACN
Guidebook For Panchayat Child-Welfare and Protection Committee
This guidebook provides a practical framework for Panchayat-level Child Welfare and Protection Committees to plan, implement, and monitor child protection initiatives at the local level. It outlines how to identify vulnerable children, map risks, coordinate services, and develop action plans aligned with national programs like Mission Vatsalya. The guide emphasizes community participation, convergence of services, and data-driven planning to create a safe, child-friendly environment within Gram Panchayats.
Disability and Child Protection Laws in India
“Disability and Child Protection in India: A Study of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015 and Disability Laws,” examines how India’s child protection and disability laws interact, with a focus on children with disabilities who need care and protection. It highlights gaps, inconsistencies, and lack of coordination between key laws such as the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016, showing how these issues can lead to exclusion and inadequate support for vulnerable children. The study also provides recommendations to create a more inclusive, rights-based, and coordinated legal framework that ensures children with disabilities can grow up in safe, supportive family and community environments.
Aftercare For Young Adult Orphans
After reaching 18 years, children in CCIs are required to leave and often fall off the radar. This lack of visibility in aftercare is an area of concern in India, and there are yawning gaps in the ‘Aftercare’ service of these Care Leavers, many of whom are orphans. They face heightened challenges a nd poorer outcomes on the journey to independence, not only because of their fractured pasts but also due to a lack of planned interventions towards preparing them for life out of CCIs. They face severe issues of shelter, sustenance, documentation of identity, continuing education and finding employment Given the importance of developing a holistic policy for the aftercare of young adult orphans; PIC decided to undertake a study in collaboration with STAPI, a nodal agency designated by the Government of Maharashtra.
Model for alternative care reform
Florence’s article
Research Paper: Kinship Care
In India, kinship care for children without adequate parental care is the most common form of care in almost all regions, religions, castes, and ethnic groups due to the tradition of the joint family system and close ties among relatives. While this care option is the most common, it is also the lea st systematically recorded, monitored, or supported option. In light of the above statement, Miracle Foundation India, with the support of our CCI partners, is trying to take active measures to ensure systematic implementation of the case management process for the safe, permanent, and sustainable reintegration of children. The Miracle Foundation has hence conducted a study in May 2021 which examined the success of children reintegrated into kinship care over the past 2 years. The study was Miracle Foundation India’s contribution to the paper on kinship care to be submitted to UNGA DGD. Along with CINI and Shishuadhar, under the aegis of IACN, a small team at Miracle Foundation India was created to pull the practical insights together. Primary data was collected within the purview of experiences, challenges, and recommendations and analysed by the Miracle team. The findings from data analysis through structured interviews with concerned stakeholders and analysis of data of the 71 children (reintegrated to kinship care) from the case management tracker—a tracking system developed by Miracle Foundation India covering all six stages of the case management process—helped in capturing the experiences, challenges, and recommendations for strengthening the kinship care system which is elaborated in the report.
Standards of Care in Child Care Institutions
This booklet covers the latest legal and policy framework, key procedures and do’s and don’ts for child care professionals on standards of care in Child Care Institutions. This booklet has been written for child care practitioners, those working in the government offices, members of District Child P rotection Units, Child Welfare Committees and Juvenile Justice Boards, social workers, caregivers, staff and management at child care institutions, State agencies as well as by beginners and volunteers in the field of Alternative Care.
Aftercare
This booklet covers the latest legal and policy framework on aftercare in India. The purpose of this documentation is to make people in the field of child protection comprehend the concept of aftercare in India. This booklet has been written for child care practitioners, those working in the governm ent offices, members of District Child Protection Units, Child Welfare Committees and Juvenile Justice Boards, social workers, caregivers, staff and management at child care institutions, State agencies as well as by beginners and volunteers in the field of Alternative Care.