What does the Ariha Shah case tell us about child care laws in India and abroad? | In Focus podcast
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The History of the Child Welfare System
India has the same approach towards child care protection as European countries do and our laws on paper are similar we have a problem with implementation and resources tell us a little bit about that so interestingly there's a little bit of a history to the integrated child protection system which I think it make this conversation very interesting. When in 1999 and 2000 have sent us a child rights which I had founded we started to do research on you know the budget allocations for children what we found was that the lowest amount of the lowest share of the budget in the union government was going to child protection. In 2003 when the 11th five year plan was being discussed the ministry got into the act along with the planning commission and
