The National Committee for Children will send working teams to two ministries and sectors and 7 cities and provinces in June to inspect the enforcement of children’s rights and children protection work.
Hanoi (VNA) ꦚ– The National Committee for Children will send working teams totwo ministries and sectors and seven cities and provinces in June to inspect the protection of children and enforcementof children’s rights .
The plan was approved on May 28 by the committee’svice chairman - Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung. The move was taken under the instruction of Deputy PrimeMinister Vu Duc Dam, who is the committee’s chairman - at the committee’s meeting on its 2019 workingagenda. One focus of the inspections is theprevention and settlement of violence and sexual abuse against children. Theworking teams are also tasked with identifying difficulties and obstacles inthe implementation of laws, policies and programmes on children protection andensuring children’s rights. Based on the inspections’ findings, they areexpected to propose solutions to improve work in the field. Another subject of the inspections isthe allocation of resources to children-related work and the integration ofchildren-related targets in socio-economic development plans of ministries,sectors and localities.
Besides, the working teams will collectrecommendations from ministries, sectors and localities on how to promotechildren’s rights and improve the protection of children, with an emphasis onpreventing school violence, child sexual abuse and child accidents and injuries.
﷽ Meanwhile, the Ministry of Labour,Invalids and Social Affairs and Ministry of Education and Training will conductinspections of a number of non-State preschool education establishments inthree provinces and cities in the third quarter of this year.
In the same period, the Ministry of Labour,Invalids and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Justice will inspect socialwelfare facilities in three provinces and cities.-VNA
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Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) 
