Residential Child Care Services

Residential Child Care Services

Services are provided for children and young persons under the age of 21 who cannot be adequately cared for by their families because of various reasons such as behavioral, emotional or family problems.  Institutional care and non-institutional care are available.

Non-institutional care includes

• Foster care (for children under 18 years of age)
• Emergency Foster Care Service (for children under 18 years of age)
• Small group homes (for children from 4 to under 18 years of age)

Emergency/Short term Small Group Home (for Children from 4 to under 18 years of age)

Institutional care includes:

• Residential crèches ( for babies to children under 3)
• Residential nurseries (Services for children aged from 3 to under 6)
• Children's reception centres (for children aged under 18 years of age whose families are facing emergency)
• Children's homes (for children or young person between 6 to under 21 years of age)
• Boys' / girls' homes (for children or young persons between 7 to under 21 years of age with behavioral or emotional problems. Schools for Social Development are run within some of these homes)
• Boys’/girls’ hostels (for young person between 14 and under 21 years of age with behavioral or emotional problems who are studying or working)