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Bhubaneswar, June 23: The state women and child development department has tried to allay fears of ‘‘mandatory registration’’ for all child-care institutions under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 and advised all collectors to ensure that all such organisations mandatorily register under the Act.
State social welfare department director Aswathy S has written to all collectors that only those organisations dealing with the ‘rehabilitation support’ to the children in need of care and protection (CNCP) need to register under the Juvenile Justice Act.
The official has clarified that ‘children in need of care and protection’ are their target group under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme.
In the letter, Aswathy said, “Children in the need of care and protection (CNCP) are the key target groups under Integrated Child Protection Scheme. As per the Act, only those childcare institutions (CCIs) who provide rehabilitation support to the CNCP are required to be registered under the act.”
She also says, “Other institutions dealing with children who are not CNCPs (such as government/private residential schools and school hostels etc) are not required to be registered under the act.”
The letter comes in the wake of confusions and speculations about the mandatory registration of child care institutions under the act.
