THE Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief  and  Resettlement  held  the  coordination  meeting  on  screening guidelines (draft) for convicted  children  in  training  schools  yesterday  morning  via  a virtual system.

The meeting was attended by Union Minister Dr Thet Thet Khine, Deputy Minister U Aung Tun Khaing, the Permanent Secretary, Directors-General, Deputy Directors-General, Directors and head of the respective training schools.

At  the  meeting,  the  Union  Minister said her ministry is implementing  child  rights  activities with prevention, protection and rehabilitation methods. The ministry  has  formed  the  Central  Committee  for  Screening  Convicted  Children  in  Training  School, and the meeting aimed to  negotiate  with  respective  training  schools’  heads  for  the  children’s best interests.

The  Union  Minister  mentioned the screening guidelines (draft) in order to assess the children age, the reason for commit-ting the crime, the environment in which the child lives, whether discipline is followed during their stay at the training school, and situations such as attending vocational  training.  She  also  said  the  need  to  provide  necessary  staffing and building depending on the number of children cared for  in  the  training  schools  and  skills training for the staff.

Afterwards,  the  attendees  discussed the status of the committee formations, the screening of children in the custody of the respective training schools and the convicted children submitted to the committee.

The  Union  Minister  and  the  Deputy  Minister  discussed  the  requirements  of  the  draft  guidelines  for  the  screening  of  convicted children in the training schools and coordinated the conditions for meeting the needs of the training schools.

MNA

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