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How supportive are the policy and legal framework related to child rights in Sri Lanka?

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How supportive are the policy and legal framework related to child rights in Sri Lanka?

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Like many countries, the legal framework in the Sri Lankan constitution is founded on legal justice rather than social justice. However, the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) was set up in 1998 to unify the responses of 10 line ministries to better protect children, along with the Ministry of Social Welfare and the Department of Probation and Child Care Services. The NCPA Act is very strong in its mandate for policy development. In Sri Lanka as a whole there is still a reliance on legal justice mechanisms rather than using child protection as a vehicle of social justice. However, the government is making a lot of efforts to move from a legal to a social policy approach to childcare. Many UN agencies and independent NGOs are lending their support to this endeavour. One example is the government s adoption of an Early Childhood Development Policy, which helps define the needs of young children to ensure their right to growth, development, and survival. Through such policy initia

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