Government announces closure of children’s homes
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The government of Kenya announces the closure of all children's homes and orphanages over child trafficking concerns
The government of Kenya announces the closure of all children’s homes and orphanages over child trafficking concerns.
The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection has announced plans to close all children’s homes that are privately owned in the country.
Speaking in Isiolo County on Sunday, Labour and Social Protection Cabinet Secretary Florence Bore said only government-owned homes, which are under the Child Welfare Society of Kenya will be allowed to operate.
CS Bore announced that this was part of the deinstitutionalization of children programme being implemented by the government.
“Deinstitutionalisation of Children is the process of reforming child care systems and closing down of orphanages and children’s homes and in place finding suitable homely placements for vulnerable children and support them in non-institutional ways,” Bore explained how the program would work.
She noted that private homes have been avenues for child trafficking.
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“The reason why we are closing them up is because we have been given directions under the Children’s Act that the private homes should be closed. They have also been routes for child trafficking, so the government wants us to retain the institutions that we have under the Child Welfare Society of Kenya,” Bore stated.
According to the Social Protection CS, the government will implement the changes within a period spanning 8 years.
“In the next eight years, those private homes will not exist. We need to prepare in order to absorb those children that will come from private homes,” she said.
The Children’s Act is also aimed at supporting the rights of children to grow up in families and communities.
Data from the Social Protection Department showed that there are 45,000 -50,000 children living in about 855 private charitable children’s institutions and others living in government-run institutions as of November 2022.
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