The Juvenile Justice Committee (JJC) of the Andhra Pradesh High Court has directed the State government to submit a report on the conditions prevailing in the Child Care Institutions (CCIs), also known as childcare homes.
Responding to a news article titled ‘The care homes violating child rights’ published in The Hindu on November 17, the JJC of the High Court has directed the Juvenile Welfare, Correctional Services and Welfare of Street Children to submit a detailed report on the functioning of the CCIs.
The news article highlighted the violations in some licensed CCIs being run by various Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) across the State. It raised the issues of how some minors were kept in homes for a long period, death of a girl in a CCI, missing children, leakage of profiles from a girl’s shelter home, alleged sexual abuse of children with special needs, unauthorised homes and poor review on functioning of some Child Welfare Committees (CWCs) among other problems.
