Family and Child Welfare

Family and Child Welfare 3 (3+0)

Lesson 15 : Child Welfare Services

Nutritional services

Irregular, disproportionate physical developments among children are many a time, due to under-nutrition or malnutrition. Nutrition service has both treatment and preventive functions. The school health clinic will recommend special diet to children sufficiency from under nutrition or mal nutrition. If parents cannot afford to provide them nutritional requirements, mid-day meals should be provided under school mid-day-meals programme.