(Combating New Crown Pneumonia) China Takes Many Measures to Ensure Child Welfare
China News Agency, Beijing, March 30 (Reporter Wang Zumin) Divides independent living areas, plans routes in advance, is equipped with full-time service personnel, and point-to-point pick-ups ... Chinese officials make specific requirements for the return of children to school in the field of child welfare.
As China ’s domestic epidemic prevention situation is getting better and better, various regions have begun to resume work and start classes in different areas. The reporter learned from the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs on the 30th that in order to protect the rights and interests of special groups of children, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Education jointly issued a notice to coordinate and advance the work related to prevention and control of epidemics and resumption of work and resumption of work in the field of child welfare.
The notice requires that child welfare institutions in low-risk areas that have issued school plans should allocate independent living areas for school children in advance, ensure that school children do not contact other children in the institution, and provide them with full-time service personnel. School children should generally live in relatively independent, well-ventilated single rooms with separate toilets. Plan routes for school children in and out of the institution in advance to avoid cross-contact with other people. It is necessary to implement various protective measures for school children on their way to and from school, and in principle, adopt the method of point-to-point transfer from the institution to the school. When school children return to the institution, they must take temperature measurement, disinfection, and change masks before they can enter the living area.
Although the local epidemic situation in China is currently under control, the notice clearly states that prevention and control of the epidemic in the field of child welfare cannot be taken lightly. Child welfare agencies and minor assistance agencies in middle and high-risk areas must continue to be strictly closed. Nucleic acid tests are performed on newly recruited children and newly recruited workers, and isolation and observation are performed for 14 days. Agree to re-enter the children's living area. For comprehensive social welfare institutions that raise children, it is necessary to ensure that the area in which children live is kept independent, and no one except the staff serving the children can enter.
Institutions in low-risk areas implement differentiated and precise prevention and control. Before the national epidemic is fully resolved, relevant agencies in the region should still implement quarantine observation and other relevant regulations for newly admitted children and newly recruited staff.
For home foster children, local governments must establish a daily notification system to maintain close contact with the foster families through telephones, videos and other means to learn more about the physical health of foster children and members of common lives.
The notice emphasizes that all localities must promptly detect, report and classify and dispose of children who suffer from lack of guardianship due to the impact of the epidemic, and ensure that their basic lives and care are guaranteed. We must focus on the care and protection needs of left-behind children and children in distress after returning to work and labor, urging their guardians or entrusted caregivers to perform their care responsibilities in accordance with the law, and improve their care and protection measures before returning to school; On the basis of this, we will strengthen the assistance and psychological comfort to rural left-behind children and children in distress, and promote the normalization and institutionalization of the protection of minors. (Finish)