Localities ordered to work harder on child education, protection

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has issued a document on implementing child care, education and protection in 2021, requesting localities to raise responsibilities and take more comprehensive and drastic measures to protect children.
Localities ordered to work harder on child education, protection ảnh 1Localities ordered to work harder on child education and protection. - Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA)has issued a document on implementing child care, education and protection in2021, requesting localities to raise responsibilitiesand take more comprehensive and drastic measures to protect children.

The document states that 2021 is the first year of implementing the Resolutionof the 13th National Party Congress and many socio-economic development plans in various fields, including the nationalaction programme for children for 2021 – 2030.

The MoLISA asked the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities tobuild, promulgate, and organise the implementation of resolutions, programmes,schemes and plans of all sectors and localities, aiming to well perform the childcare, education and protection in line with the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress; the Law on Children; resolutions, directives and decisions of the National Assembly (NA)and the Government; and programmes and projects on children in the 2021 – 2025 period,with a vision to 2030.

Accordingly, Party committees and local authorities at all levels were orderedto raise awareness and responsibility, especially of heads, in directing,managing and implementing the Party's guidelines, and the State’s policies andlaws on children's rights; solving issues related to children, childright violations; and preventing and minimising children’s vulnerability to risksof harm and injury.

Localities need to ensure State management on children, human resources for thework, and allocate local budgets for implementing targets and solutions of thenational action programme for children for 2021 – 2030,and local programmes and plans for children.

The People's Committeesof provinces and centrally-run cities were asked to focus on improving and developingchild protection service systems, maintaining and expanding models of childprotection and care, regularly supervising the implementation of laws,policies, programmes, schemes and plans on children, developing database onchildren, collecting information and statistics on children, and connecting child database with relevant data systems.

Attention will bepaid to promoting interdisciplinary coordination in implementing the childwork, and solutions to ensure safe living environment, prevent childsexual abuse, exploitation and violence, and injury accidents, especially drowning./.
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