Organization : Social Welfare Assam
Service Name : How Do I Sponsor a Child
Applicable State : Assam
Country: India
Website : https://socialwelfare.assam.gov.in/how-to/how-do-i-sponsor-a-child-0
Guidelines : https://www.statusin.in/uploads/35943-GuidelinesICPS.pdf
Social Welfare Assam How Do I Sponsor a Child
In the context of these guidelines, sponsorship is the provision of supplementary support to families to meet medical, nutritional, educational and other needs of their children with a view to improving their quality of life.
Related : Social Welfare Assam Registration of Child Care Institutions : www.statusin.in/35937.html
It is a conditional assistance to enable children who were at risk from being removed from school and sent for work, to continue their education.
Types of Sponsorship
Rehabilitative :
** Children placed into institutions by families as a poverty coping measure to reunite them with their families
Preventive :
** Support to families living in extreme conditions of deprivation or exploitation to enable the child to remain in his/her family
Overview
** Sponsorship means provision of supplementary support, financial or otherwise, to the families to meet the medical, educational and developmental needs of the child.
** In all Sponsorship procedures, the best interests of the child shall be the paramount consideration. The Fundamental principle behind these guidelines is every child’s right to grow up in a family.
Eligibility Criteria
** According to the Guidelines for Sponsorship of Children under ICPS given in Schedule III
Guidelines for filling the form
** According to the Guidelines for Sponsorship of Children under ICPS given in Schedule III
Documents Required
** Undertaking by the parent to whom child is restored
** According to the Guidelines for Sponsorship of Children under ICPS given in Schedule III
Guidelines For Sponsorship Under ICPS
Introduction/Preamble
These guidelines are based on the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act 2000 Amendment 2006, Integrated Child Protection Scheme, UN Guidelines for Alternative Care 2009 and on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
These guidelines have been formulated by the Ministry of Women and Child Development after series of consultations with key stakeholders, NGOs working on the issues, experts, academicians and officials from various states.
In all Sponsorship procedures, the best interests of the child shall be the paramount consideration. The Fundamental principle behind these guidelines is every child’s right to grow up in a family.
Focus of the Scheme
To begin with the scheme will focus on deinstitutionalisation of children already residing in child care institutions. Hence, in the first phase of the implementation of the Integrated Child Protection Scheme, ICPS will give priority to Family based sponsorship for institutionalized children, who have either both or at least one parent alive, in order to facilitate their re -unification with their biological family.
Criteria for Selection of Children
a) Children, of the age of 0 to18 years
b) Children staying in child care institutions for more than six months continuously, who can be restored to their families, with financial support
c) The total income of the family should not be more than Rs. 24,000 per year.
d) Priority shall be given to :
** Children of a single mother/widow
** Children of Leprosy patients/HIV infected parent
** Children whose parent/bread earner is in jail
Financial Norms
** Rs. 1000 per child per month for maximum 2 children per family
** The ratio between Centre and State Government will be 75:25 as mentioned under the ICPS budget.
** Duration – Maximum three years or up to 18 years, whichever is earlier – other than exceptional circumstances.
How to apply
** According to the Guidelines for Sponsorship of Children under ICPS given in Schedule III
Checklist
** In all Sponsorship procedures it is important that the highest possible standards of practice are followed, within accepted principles
** In accordance with the child’s age and level of development, he/she has the right to be consulted and to have his/her opinion taken into account in any matter or procedure affecting him/her.
** The Fundamental principle is every child’s right to grow up in a family
Whom to Contact
State Adoption Resource Agency (SARA),
H.No.46, 1st Floor,
Survey Bus Stop, Beltola Road,
Guwahati-28.