The Ministry of Women and Child Development has placed the draft policy on its website and invited comments from stakeholders until January 4. This will be the first policy dedicated to the protection of children, an area that until now was only a part of the broader National Child Policy, 2013. The apex court had also asked the Centre to consider framing a national policy on protection of children. The draft policy recommends that all organisations must have a code of conduct based on “zero tolerance of child abuse and exploitation”. “A policy has four aspects — creating awareness, prevention, reporting and responding,” said Prabhat Kumar, Technical Advisor, Child Protection, Save The Children.

Source: The Hindu December 18, 2018 17:03 UTC