News 1+1丨County-level child welfare institutions will be transformed!

Where is the focus of future work?

  The country’s 881 county-level child welfare institutions will be transformed into minor assistance and protection institutions. Why is there such a reform?

Where will children who have been taken in before will be transferred to live?

"News 1+1" Tong Xiaojun, director of the Children's Research Center, School of Sociology, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is concerned about

the transformation of county-level child welfare institutions

.

The number of children raised by child welfare institutions is decreasing year by year, but the proportion of sick and disabled children is constantly increasing. How do you view this situation?

Tong Xiaojun:

"One drop and one rise" reflects the improvement of the service quality of welfare institutions and the progress of our society as a whole.

On the one hand, the total number of orphans entering the orphanage decreases every year. On the other hand, with the development, the children in the orphanage are healthier. These children may enter the adoptive family and leave the orphanage. The total is getting smaller and smaller.

  With the reduction of the number of healthy children, more sick and disabled children are left in the orphanage. As a result, the proportion of sick and disabled children is getting higher and higher, but the total number is getting lower and lower.

So looking at it as a whole, it shows

an improvement

.

What is the significance of the innovation and transformation of county-level child welfare institutions?

Tong Xiaojun: A

large number of medical rehabilitation resources are concentrated at the prefecture and city level. When children from the district/county child welfare institutions are brought up in the prefecture and city level child welfare institutions, they will receive better services.

The vacant child welfare institutions at the county level have been transformed to engage in the protection of minors following the establishment of our country’s minor protection system.

  This adjustment is actually a strategic adjustment in the construction of our country’s entire juvenile protection system. Because our country’s juvenile protection system has been a construction process from scratch in recent years,

county-level child welfare institutions will be transformed. Becoming a rescue and protection institution for minors is a manifestation of the implementation of the system.

What is the best way to diversify parenting and placement of orphans?

Tong Xiaojun:

① What we try to support is

adoption

, so that children can enter a natural and stable family through legal procedures, and grow up physically and mentally to the greatest extent possible.

  ②The second is

foster care

.

Foster care allows the child to enter a natural family, and at a certain stage allows the child to grow up in a natural and loving family environment.

  ③Because of various reasons, we cannot enter adoptive homes and foster homes. What we can do is to form a family environment in a simulated way as much as possible,

build family-style residences, institutions to recruit and determine eligible couples

,

and

form a family

with several children. family.

  The above three are all related to the concept of family. If none of these can be done, the second most is

institutional parenting and collective parenting

.

Where is the focus of the next work?

Tong Xiaojun:

The work of systematizing and institutionalizing the protection of minors is still relatively new to our country. The transformation of child welfare institutions is facing new challenges, including ↓↓

①Expansion of service groups.

As a county-level organization, you might have been in charge of a few children, but now you have to pay attention to all the minors in the county.

② Construction of the staff team.

For children, it is necessary to first pick out the guardianship risks, injury risks, and even minors who have been injured, and provide services according to different levels of high risk. This requires the construction of a team of personnel.

③The upgrade of the venue.

To carry out services, a venue is needed, and the venues of current child welfare institutions can be moved over.

The question is whether the internal construction and the state of the facilities can be conducive to the development of the service work after the move, I am afraid that some changes will be made.

④ Responsibilities and tasks are heavier.

In addition to the "uninsured organizations" at the county level to carry out their own work, they also need to support, train, and mobilize the lower two levels, that is, the township and village level personnel we are talking about to carry out their work, so There is a lot of human resource training.

After 90 couples divorce and don’t want children, what can the uninsured center do?

Tong Xiaojun:

If the uninsured service system is perfect, the judiciary should have its own social service resources to target the couple.

In addition, the county level, village level, and township level, the three-level grassroots protection system for minors is established, and their unprotected centers can be connected and used resources to follow up with families and provide support. .