Family And Probation Welfare Services In Uganda

Family And Probation Welfare Services In Uganda

Child and Family Welfare System, Child and Family Welfare System comprise of laws and policies, programmes, services, practices and structures designed to promote the well- being of children by ensuring safety and protection from harm; achieving permanency and strengthening families to care for their children.

Family And Probation Welfare Services In Uganda

Ensure income security among the disadvantaged, vulnerable and excluded through the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty programme (LEAP). Facilitate the adoption of children. Promote social, economic and emotional stability in families. You must not have direct contact with any child you know or reasonably should know to be under the age of 18, your own children, without the permission of the probation officer.

Family welfare includes not only planning. of birth, but they welfare of wholes family by means of total family health care. The family welfare programme has high priority in India because its success depends upon the quality of life of all citizens. Family welfare service of the social agencies has the purpose of preserving healthy family life. The aim of family case worker is to assist the individuals in the family to develop their capacities to lead personally satisfying and socially useful lives in the family unit.

The probation and social welfare officer can help in ensuring for example child maintenance through the following ways: He/ She can engage the parents or guardian into a mediation for an amicable agreement in the best interests of the child. Probation is a period of time during which a person who has committed a crime has to obey the law and be supervised by a probation officer, rather than being sent to prison.

The Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act is a child protection measure, Children in conflict with the law and children at risk are victims of circumstances beyond their control. They are victims of abuse, of dysfunctional families and insensitive communities. Juvenile delinquents or juvenile offenders commit crimes ranging from status offenses such as, truancy, violating a curfew or underage drinking and smoking to more serious offenses categorized as property crimes, violent crimes, sexual offenses, and cybercrimes.

List Of Family And Probation Welfare Services In Uganda

Below Are The Partial List Of Family And Probation Welfare Services In Uganda

Family And Probation Welfare Services In Uganda

Postal Address: P.O.Box 49, Lira, UGANDA, EAST AFRICA

Telephone: +256(0473) 420219

Fax: 256 (0473) 420219

Africa Social Work Network