Context: 

Recently, a consultation meeting of the functionaries of Child Care Institutions was held to review the effective implementation of Mission Vatsalya.

About Mission Vatsalya:-

• It’s an umbrella scheme for child protection services in the country.
• Ministry: Ministry of Women and Child Development.
• Prior to 2009, the Ministry of women and child development Implemented three schemes for children in need of protection,
• The juvenile justice programme for children in need of care and protection as well as children in conflict with the law,
• The integrated programme for street children,
• The scheme for assistance to children’s homes.

• In 2010, these were merged into a single plan known as the Integrated Child Protection Scheme.
• In 2017, it was renamed “Child Protection Services Scheme,” and again in 2021-22 it was renamed as Mission Vatsalya.
• It is one of the new triad of schemes along with Mission Shakti, and Poshan 2.0.
• It aims at securing a healthy and happy childhood for every child.

Components:-                                                      

• Strengthening service delivery structures
• Upscaling institutional care and services
• Encouraging non-institutional community-based child care
• Emergency outreach services
• Training and capacity building

Objectives:-

• To secure a healthy and happy childhood for each and every child in the country.
• To ensure opportunities to enable them to discover their full potential.
• To assist States/UTs in delivering the mandate of the Juvenile Justice Act 2015. 
• To achieve the Sustainable Development (SDG)goals.
• It promotes family-based non-institutional care of children in difficult circumstances.

Implementation:-

• Under the mission, the Government plans to partner with the private sector as well as volunteer groups.

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