Narrative:
Thailand has established a broad framework of laws and regulations to protect children from violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect. Children’s rights to protection are guaranteed through the 2007 Constitution, the Criminal Code, the Civil and Commercial Code, the Act on Juvenile and Family Court and Procedure (2010), the Child Protection Act (2003), the Child Adoption Act (1979), the Domestic Violence Act (2007), the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act (2008) and Thailand’s ratification of numerous international human rights treaties and conventions. However, the impressive body of legislation is not currently matched by the organizational infrastructure and human capacity to ensure full implementation of the law and monitoring of its enforcement. Furthermore, certain harmful social norms, attitudes and beliefs towards children continue to prevail.
Under the current system, collective and overlapping responsibilities for child protection are spread across ministries, departments and agencies, with weak coordination and monitoring mechanisms. At the same time, fragmented services are delivered by both state and non-state actors at various administrative or geographic levels. This includes sub-district, district, provincial and national levels.
The weak coordination and overlapping responsibilities between child protection service providers, and between the child protection and other social sectors, means that opportunities are lost in providing children with a continuum of prevention and care and protection responses, including during natural disasters and other emergencies. This problem has been further exacerbated by the fact that the majority of child protection interventions has focused on short-term responses, and are response oriented, which are primarily organized around specific issues related to children in specific situations such as: street-based children, trafficked children and children in conflict with the law.
While the result of vertical, issue-focused programming may be effective in serving a specific and identified cohort of children, it does not recognize that the same children may face multiple risks. Fragmented child protection responses may deal with one of these issues, but they rarely provide a comprehensive and sustainable response, which addresses any underlying vulnerability factors or seeks to prevent child protection violations occurring in the first instance.
A holistic child protection system is integral to the fulfilment of children’s rights. It provides the protective environment to safeguard children against all forms of abuse, exploitation, neglect and violence. The interlocking components of the social welfare system for children and families, the justice system and an integral social behaviour change are key to a holistic, integrated and well-structured system which prevents and responds to all child protection concerns.
Narrative:
Thailand has established a broad framework of laws and regulations to protect children from violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect. Children’s rights to protection are guaranteed through the 2007 Constitution, the Criminal Code, the Civil and Commercial Code, the Act on Juvenile and Family Court and Procedure (2010), the Child Protection Act (2003), the Child Adoption Act (1979), the Domestic Violence Act (2007), the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act (2008) and Thailand’s ratification of numerous international human rights treaties and conventions. However, the impressive body of legislation is not currently matched by the organizational infrastructure and human capacity to ensure full implementation of the law and monitoring of its enforcement. Furthermore, certain harmful social norms, attitudes and beliefs towards children continue to prevail.
Under the current system, collective and overlapping responsibilities for child protection are spread across ministries, departments and agencies, with weak coordination and monitoring mechanisms. At the same time, fragmented services are delivered by both state and non-state actors at various administrative or geographic levels. This includes sub-district, district, provincial and national levels.
The weak coordination and overlapping responsibilities between child protection service providers, and between the child protection and other social sectors, means that opportunities are lost in providing children with a continuum of prevention and care and protection responses, including during natural disasters and other emergencies. This problem has been further exacerbated by the fact that the majority of child protection interventions has focused on short-term responses, and are response oriented, which are primarily organized around specific issues related to children in specific situations such as: street-based children, trafficked children and children in conflict with the law.
While the result of vertical, issue-focused programming may be effective in serving a specific and identified cohort of children, it does not recognize that the same children may face multiple risks. Fragmented child protection responses may deal with one of these issues, but they rarely provide a comprehensive and sustainable response, which addresses any underlying vulnerability factors or seeks to prevent child protection violations occurring in the first instance.
A holistic child protection system is integral to the fulfilment of children’s rights. It provides the protective environment to safeguard children against all forms of abuse, exploitation, neglect and violence. The interlocking components of the social welfare system for children and families, the justice system and an integral social behaviour change are key to a holistic, integrated and well-structured system which prevents and responds to all child protection concerns.
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