Aiming for efficient implementation of Foster Care and Sponsorships Guidelines of the Jharkhand government a three-day training programme was inaugurated on the Civil Court premises in Ranchi and Bokaro on Tuesday.
In Ranchi Judicial Commissioner, Navneet Kumar alongwith member Secretary JHAlSA AK Rai inaugurated the workshop, while in Bokaro District and Sessions Judge Md Shakir inaugurated the programme organised by District legal Services Authority of both the districts under the aegis of JHAlSA; scheduled to be concluded on 26 July.
During the first-day training programme two teams were constituted for the proper implementation of the guidelines includes Team A – for Jharkhand’s Foster Care and Team – B for Sponsorship guidelines, informed Anand Mani Tripathi Secretary DlSA Bokaro.
Recently, foster care and sponsorship guidelines have been notified in Jharkhand, aiming to promote family-based care programme especially for the orphan or discarded kids, he said.
Foster care is an arrangement whereby a child is placed for the purpose of alternate care in the domestic environment of a family, usually on a short-term or extended period of time, with unrelated family members for purpose of care and protection, said Anand. “Family or a family like an environment is most conducive to a child and every child has the right to grow in such an environment,” he added.
While the Sponsorship programme is a family-based care and protection programme for vulnerable children. Sponsorship is meant for provision of supplementary support, financial or otherwise, to the biological or extended families to meet the medical, educational and developmental needs of the child and prevent family separation, said Anand.