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Child Protection' needs to be understood in terms of who are the children who need to be protected, from what/whom and how?. Every child has a right to protection. This not only includes children who are in difficult circumstances and those who have suffered violence, abuse and exploitation but also those who are not in any of these adverse situations and yet need to be protected in order to ensure that they remain within the social security and protective net.
'Child Protection' refers to protection from violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect. Violations of the child's right in addition to these human rights violations are also massive, under-recognized and under-reported barriers to child survival and development. Children subjected to violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect are at risk of shortened lives, poor physical and mental health, educational problems (including dropping out of school), poor parenting skills later in life, homelessness, vagrancy and displacement.
Child in need of care & protection means a child who:
- is found without any home or settled place or abode and without any ostensible means of subsistence;
- resides with a person (whether a guardian of the child or not) and such person has threatened to kill or injure the child and there is a reasonable likelihood of the threat being carried out, or has killed,
- abused or neglected some other child or children and there is a reasonable likelihood of the child in question being killed, abused or neglected by that person
- is a mentally or physically challenged or ill child or a child suffering from terminal diseases or incurable diseases, and/or having no one to support or look after him/her
- has a parent or guardian and such parent or guardian is unfit or incapacitated to care for or exercise control over the child
- does not have a parent/parents and no one is willing to take care of him/her, or whose parents have abandoned him/her or who is a missing and/or runaway child and whose parents cannot be found after reasonable inquiry
- is being or is likely to be grossly abused, tortured or exploited for the purpose of sexual abuse or illegal acts
- is found vulnerable and is likely to be inducted into drug abuse or trafficking,
- is being or is likely to be abused for unconscionable gains
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