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Mission VatsalyaHistorical Perspective:
Prior to 2009, the Ministry of women and child development Implemented three schemes for children in need of protection,
The juvenile justice programme for children in need of care and protection as well as children in conflict with the law,
The integrated programme for street children,
The scheme for assistance to children's homes.
In 2010, these were merged into a single plan known as the Integrated Child Protection Scheme.
In 2017, it was renamed "Child Protection Services Scheme," and again in 2021-22 as Mission Vatsalya.
About:
It’s an umbrella scheme for child protection services in the country.
Components under Mission Vatsalya include improve functioning of statutory bodies; strengthen service delivery structures; Upscale institutional care and services; encourage non-institutional community-based care; emergency outreach services; training and capacity building.
Objectives:
To secure a healthy and happy childhood for each and every child in the country.
To ensure opportunities to enable them to discover their full potential and assist them in flourishing in all respects, in a sustained manner, foster a sensitive, supportive and synchronized ecosystem for development of children, assist States and UTs in delivering the mandate of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
It promotes family-based non-institutional care of children in difficult circumstances based on the principle of institutionalization of children as a measure of last resort.
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