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Government Laws

Child Welfare Act

(Source: retrieved 2001, from Protection Project Web site: http://www.protectionproject.org/)

Article 16 (Kinds of Child Welfare Facilities):
(1) Kinds of child welfare facilities are as follows:

1. Child rearing facilities: facility with a purpose of protecting and rearing the children requiring protection by committing them therein;
2. Temporary protection facilities for children: facility with the purpose of temporarily protecting the children requiring protection, and devising a plan for future rearing and taking protective measures for children;
3. Protection and treatment facilities for children: facility with the purpose of committing those children therein who indulge in delinquent acts or are likely to commit such acts, and who are without any protector, or for whom a person with parental power or a protector has applied for his being committed therein, or who are entrusted for protection by the Court of Family Affairs, a district court and a juvenile branch court, and lead them into the right path and thereby foster them into the sound members of society;
4. Vocational training facilities for children: facility with a purpose of enabling the children aged 15 or older committed in a child welfare facility and the children of poor families to acquire the knowledge and skill required.