Family and Child Welfare

Family and Child Welfare 3 (3+0)

Lesson 35 : Requirements of Institutional Services

Ancillary services

Every child should be given two towels, two combs, four ounces of oil, one pound of washing soap and one cake of bathing soap, a mirror in every residential room. As library and reading room containing suitable books and journals is necessary for every institution.
Every institution should make arrangements for providing counseling and case work service to deal with individual problems of inmates.

After-care Services:
It is necessary that care programmes should be taken keeping in view the rehabilitation of the child as a goal, but ultimately they should be placed in the normal community. If there is no well thought-out after-care services. These can be followed.

1. Adoptions
2. giving minimum education to the child
3. placement with commercial establishments for employment
4. giving training in vocations in which a child is interested
5. family contacts through visits and correspondence
6. in of girls, marriage may be one of the effective methods of rehabilitation but this should be taken up very carefully and supervised properly.

Follow up service for well-balanced activities programmes should be provided at least for 3 years.
In short a children's Institution should organize a well balanced programme of activities of care and after-care, educational and vocational programmes, recreation and work, love and punishment with ample opportunities for children to physically, intellectually and emotionally.