ICPS DCPU SAA Notes

Integrated Child Protection Services (ICPS)
 About ICPS
The Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) is a centrally sponsored scheme

aimed at building a protective environment for children in difficult
circumstances, as well as other vulnerable children, through Government-Civil
Society Partnership.
 The ICPS: Objectives
ICPS brings together multiple existing child protection schemes of the Ministry
under one comprehensive umbrella, and integrates additional interventions for
protecting children and preventing harm. ICPS, therefore, would institutionalize
essential services and strengthen structures, enhance capacities at all levels,
create database and knowledge base for child protection services, strengthen
child protection at family and community level, ensure appropriate inter-
sectoral response at all levels.
The scheme would set up a child protection data management system to

formulate and implement effective intervention strategies and monitor their
outcomes. Regular evaluation of the programmes and structures would be
conducted and course correction would be undertaken.
 Functions of District Child Protection Unit (DCPU)
The DCPO(District Child Protection Officer) coordinates and Nodal officer who
implements all child rights and protection activities at district level. Specific
functions of the DCPU are as follows:
1. Contribute to effective implementation of child protection legislation,

schemes and achievement of child protection goals laid out in the
National Plan of Action for Children. In doing so, the DCPO will follow
national and state priorities, rules and guidelines.
2. Ensure that for each child in need of care there is an individual care plan
and that the plan is regularly reviewed. Monitor the implementation of the
plan.
3. Identify families at risk and children in need of care and protection
through effective networking and linkages with the ICDS functionaries,
Specialized Adoption Agencies (SAA), NGOs dealing with child protection
issues and local bodies, viz. PRIs and Urban Local Bodies, etc.
4. Assess the number of children in difficult circumstances and create
district-specific databases to monitor trends and patterns of children in
difficult circumstances.
5. Mapping all child related service providers and services at district for
creating a resource directory.
6. Identify and support credible voluntary organizations to implement
program components of the ICPS.
7. Support implementation of family based non-institutional services
including sponsorship, foster care, adoption and after care.
8. Ensure effective implementation of the Juvenile Justice (Care and
Protection of Children) Act, 2000 and its Amendment Act, 2006 at
district/city levels by supporting creation of adequate infrastructure, viz.
setting up JJBs, CWCs, SJPUs in each districts and homes in a cluster of
districts as required.
9. Ensure setting up of District, Block and Village level Child Protection
Committees for effective implementation of programs, as well as
discharge of its functions.
10. Facilitate transfer of children at all levels for either restoration to their
families or placing the child in long or short-term rehabilitation through
sponsorship, kinship care, in country adoption, foster care, inter-country
adoption and placement in institutions.
11. Facilitate effective implementation of other legislation for child protection
in the district, viz. Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act (HAMA) 1956;
Guardians and Wards Act (GAWA) 1890; Child Labour (Prohibition and
Regulation) Act 1986; Child Marriage and Restraint Act 1979 and Immoral
Traffic Prevention Act 1986, Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic
Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act 1994, Protection of children
from Sexual Offense Act,2012, CPCRC Act,2005 etc. and any other Act
that comes into force for protecting child rights.
12. Network and coordinate with all government departments to build inter-
sectoral linkages on child protection issues, including Departments of
Health, Education, Social Welfare, Urban Basic Services, Backward Classes
& Minorities, Youth Services, Police, Judiciary, Labour, State AIDS Control
Society, among others.
13. Network and coordinate with voluntary and civil society organizations
working in the field of child rights and protection.
14. Develop parameters and tools for effective monitoring and supervision of
ICPS in the district.
15. Supervise and monitor all institutions/agencies providing residential
facilities to children in district.
16. Train and build capacity of all personnel (Government and Non-
government) working under child protection system to provide effective
services to children.
17. Encourage voluntary youth participation in child protection programs at
district, block and community levels.
18. Organize quarterly meeting with all stakeholders at district level including
Childline Services, SAA, superintendents of homes, NGOs and members of
public to review the progress and achievement of child protection
activities.
19. Liaison with the SCPS, SARA and DCPUs of other districts.
20. Provide secretarial support to the DCPC.
21. Maintain a database of all children in institutional care and non-
institutional care at the district level. This Data Management System will
ultimately be uploaded onto a comprehensive, integrated, live database
for children in care and in need of care in the country- the ‘TrackChild’.
 Specialized Adoption Agency (SAA)- facilitating Adoption
(Shishugruha)
The JJ Act empowers the State Government to recognize one or more of its
institutions or voluntary organizations in each district as SAA in such manner, as
may be prescribed, for the placement of orphaned, abandoned or surrendered
children for adoption in accordance with the provisions of various guidelines for
adoption issued from time to time, by the State Government, or the Central
Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) and notified by the Central Government.
All SAAs shall be registered under Section 34(34) of the Juvenile Justice (Care
and Protection of Children) Act 2000 (as amended in 2006) as well as the
Societies Registration Act, 1860 and shall adhere to the guidelines or rules laid
down by the State Government/Central Government governing in-
country/inter-country adoption from time to time. The SAA shall function within
the ambit of law and comply with all relevant legislations, rules and guidelines.
ICPS supports State and NGO run Specialized Adoption Agency (SAA) where
adoptable children of below five years of age are provided residential care. The
individual care plan for each child is prepared within a month by the
Specialized.
Adoption Agency (SAA) in coordination with the District Child Protection Unit
(DCPU) and forwarded within a fortnight for approval to the Child Welfare
Committee (CWC), once agreed upon by the DCPO. The SAA shall report to the
DCPO on the execution of the individual child care plan within six months of the
care plan being approved by the CWC. The individual care plan shall be
reviewed every six months and no child shall remain in the care of a SAA for
more than a period of one year.
The specific roles and responsibilities of these SAAs shall include:
1. Child related functions
a) Admission and registration of orphaned, abandoned and surrendered

children;
b) Reporting the arrival of a child to the CWC;
c) Post CWC order, report registration of the child to DCPO and SARA;
d) Maintaining an online2 database of all children admitted;
e) Preparation of child study report and physical examination report;

f) Assist CWC in enquiry as and when required;
g) Pre and Post adoption counselling to children;
h) Matching of the child;
i) Facilitate placement of the child either in adoption or in pre adoption

foster care with the help of District Placement Committee chaired by
DCPO with two members respectively from the respective SAA and
Protection Officer – Non-institutional Services;
j) Court process for adoption or placement of a child;
k) Obtaining birth certificate of the child;
l) Post adoption follow up;
m) Archiving relevant records of birth parents, their medical/case history,

case records of the child, birth parents and adoptive parents;
n) Maintaining Minimum Standards of Care;
o) Submitting a quarterly progress report to DCPO and SARA for indicating

the rehabilitation plan for each child admitted in the SAA.
2. Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs) related functions
a) Registration of prospective adoptive parents;
b) Reporting the registration of PAPs to the DCPO and SARA;
c) Maintaining an online3 database of PAPs registered with the current

status of their application;
d) Counselling of biological parents/unwed Mother surrendering the child

and for prevention of abandonment and rehabilitation of child;
e) Carrying out Home Study Report;
f) Matching of the child with PAPs;
g) Facilitating placement of the child in pre adoption foster care;
h) Pre and post adoption counseling to all PAPs;

i) Carrying out court procedures for adoption or placement of a child;
j) Carrying out post adoption follow up.
The SAA shall work under the overall supervision of State Adoption Resource
Agency and the District Child Protection Unit. In order to run a SAA, a Child Care
Institution (CCI) must be registered under the provisions laid down by the
Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act 2006 under
Section-34(3). The State Government shall recognize such CCIs as SAA under the
provisions of Section-41(4) of the Act. CARA is empowered to give special
accreditation to SAAs working towards placing the child in Inter-country
adoption in accordance with the provisions laid down under the Hague
Convention on Inter-country Adoption

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Integrated Child Protection Services (ICPS)

The Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) is a centrally sponsored scheme

 The ICPS: Objectives

The scheme would set up a child protection data management system to

 Functions of District Child Protection Unit (DCPU)

1. Contribute to effective implementation of child protection legislation,

The specific roles and responsibilities of these SAAs shall include:

1. Child related functions

a) Admission and registration of orphaned, abandoned and surrendered

b) Reporting the arrival of a child to the CWC;

d) Maintaining an online2 database of all children admitted;

e) Preparation of child study report and physical examination report;

g) Pre and Post adoption counselling to children;

h) Matching of the child;

i) Facilitate placement of the child either in adoption or in pre adoption

j) Court process for adoption or placement of a child;

k) Obtaining birth certificate of the child;

l) Post adoption follow up;

m) Archiving relevant records of birth parents, their medical/case history,

n) Maintaining Minimum Standards of Care;

o) Submitting a quarterly progress report to DCPO and SARA for indicating

2. Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs) related functions

a) Registration of prospective adoptive parents;

b) Reporting the registration of PAPs to the DCPO and SARA;

c) Maintaining an online3 database of PAPs registered with the current

d) Counselling of biological parents/unwed Mother surrendering the child

e) Carrying out Home Study Report;

f) Matching of the child with PAPs;

g) Facilitating placement of the child in pre adoption foster care;

h) Pre and post adoption counseling to all PAPs;

j) Carrying out post adoption follow up.

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