In order to trace missing children, the Delhi Government has constituted three working groups to submit action plans and guidelines, besides fixing a timeline for tracing missing children.
The committees, which will submit the guidelines in a month to the Department of Woman and Child Development (WCD), will have been assigned a three-point mandate, including developing strategic framework for making the police network more responsive and involved in tracing families of missing children in a time-bound manner, streamlining the processes being followed by Child Welfare Committees for restoration of children, reviewing the process of restoration in residential institutions being run by the Department, and developing modalities for expediting the same.
Principal Secretary (Social Welfare and Woman & Child Development) Satbir Bedi said a series of meetings are being held by the WCD to review the existing restoration process and formulating the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for restoring children back to their families in an expeditious manner.
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“The SOPs developed for chalking out steps involved in the restoration process, and to specify a timeline for each and every action required to be carried out at various stages so that all work is carried out in a time-bound manner and responsibility is fixed for delays, if any,” Ms. Bedi explained.