Objective Of Child Monitoring System
CLM is an evolving area of child labour work which is closely linked to enforcement of national child labour legislation. A wide range of child labour monitoring initiatives have been designed, implemented and tested as part of over ten years of ILO-IPEC's global work against child labour. CLM first started in early 1990’s in the manufacturing sector through IPEC projects in Bangladesh and Pakistan from which it expanded into other economic sectors, such as fishing (in Indonesia and Philippines) and agriculture (in Central America and Western Africa). Currently CLM initiatives can be found in all areas of IPEC intervention including the informal and illicit sectors. More recently, CLM has been integrated into the design of Time Bound Programmes.
In practice CLM involves the identification, referral, protection and prevention of child labourers through the development of a coordinated multi-sector monitoring and referral process that aims to cover all children living in a given geographical area. Its principal activities include regularly repeated direct observations to identify child labourers and to determine risks to which they are exposed, referral of these children to services, verification that they have been removed and tracking them afterwards to ensure that they have satisfactory alternatives.
Below are the pertinent sections of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), the permanent source of Federal regulations, which is updated annually. The list also includes links to the actual legislation of title IV of the SSA.
Like title IV-B, title IV-E of the Social Security Act (SSA) also addresses major components of child welfare. Its focus is on providing safe and stable out-of-home care for children who are in out-of-home care due to child maltreatment or other circumstances until they are able to achieve permanency in their placement by being safely returned home, placed permanently with adoptive families, or placed in other planned arrangements.
Below are the pertinent sections of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), the permanent source of Federal regulations, which is updated annually. The list also includes links to the actual legislation of title IV of the SSA.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), originally enacted in 1975, entitles eligible children to education programs that meet their special needs. An Individualized Education Plan (IEP) is developed for eligible children to identify their specific educational needs and strategies for meeting them. Both the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) and IDEA contain provisions for procedures for Child Protective Services (CPS) agencies to screen or refer children under the age of 3 in substantiated cases of abuse or neglect for evaluation of IDEA eligibility.
In order to receive Federal funds, States are required to comply with the guidelines mandated under CAPTA. They generally, however, have autonomy in their provision of services to maltreated children and their families. For example, all States have enacted laws or statutes about reporting suspected maltreatment and intervention, which are enforced by civil and criminal courts. These statutes also include definitions of the acts and omissions considered abuse and neglect in a particular State. In addition, all States, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories have enacted statutes requiring that the maltreatment of children be reported to a designated agency or official. The State has the authority to intervene if the parent fails to provide for or protect the child.