A seminar on developing and improving systems for child care and protection services was held in Ho Chi Minh City on January 13.
Jointlyorganised by the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and SocialAffairs and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund(UNICEF) in Vietnam, the event is part of a project which aims to lowerthe rate of children with special circumstances and raise the rate ofthose receiving assistance in the city between 2015 and 2016.
Torealise these goals, local authorities plan to construct additionalcentres for supporting and protecting children, pilot a day-boardingmodel to care for children living with HIV/AIDS, and develop acommunity-based protection system over the next two years.
LeThu Ha from the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs saidchild care and protection service system has been piloted in 63 percentof provinces and cities, helping reduce the rate of child victims ofviolence and abuse, among others, by 0.2 percent annually.
The model also contributed to increasing the rate of children receiving care and assistance to 72 percent.
However,she noted that efforts have yet to meet set requirements because systemand staff capacity in the field remains limited, whileinterdisciplinary coordination in the field has not been effective.
LeHong Loan from UNICEF Vietnam said the 2015-2016 programme will focuson supporting the formation of socially-sponsored centres and a staffnetwork working in the field, while establishing interdisciplinaryworking groups to provide assistance, care and protection services tochildren in need.
Implemented in HCM City since 2010, theproject was designed to improve the capacity of local authorities tothoroughly and effectively resolve issues related children, especiallythose in poor and vulnerable families, and within migrationcommunities.-VNA
Jointlyorganised by the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and SocialAffairs and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund(UNICEF) in Vietnam, the event is part of a project which aims to lowerthe rate of children with special circumstances and raise the rate ofthose receiving assistance in the city between 2015 and 2016.
Torealise these goals, local authorities plan to construct additionalcentres for supporting and protecting children, pilot a day-boardingmodel to care for children living with HIV/AIDS, and develop acommunity-based protection system over the next two years.
LeThu Ha from the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs saidchild care and protection service system has been piloted in 63 percentof provinces and cities, helping reduce the rate of child victims ofviolence and abuse, among others, by 0.2 percent annually.
The model also contributed to increasing the rate of children receiving care and assistance to 72 percent.
However,she noted that efforts have yet to meet set requirements because systemand staff capacity in the field remains limited, whileinterdisciplinary coordination in the field has not been effective.
LeHong Loan from UNICEF Vietnam said the 2015-2016 programme will focuson supporting the formation of socially-sponsored centres and a staffnetwork working in the field, while establishing interdisciplinaryworking groups to provide assistance, care and protection services tochildren in need.
Implemented in HCM City since 2010, theproject was designed to improve the capacity of local authorities tothoroughly and effectively resolve issues related children, especiallythose in poor and vulnerable families, and within migrationcommunities.-VNA
