As part of a push to activate multiple child support mechanisms, the State Child Protection Society has opened up applications for families to foster children.
The Delhi Woman and Child Development department has released guidelines for the sponsorship programme that will provide financial assistance of Rs. 2000 monthly to children who are either orphaned and living with extended family, or who have a lone parent incapable of providing for them.
Now, child protection agencies are also inviting applications from families which would like to foster children in child care institutions, orphaned children or those separated from their families.
The eligibility conditions for families to apply to foster a child are:
So far in Delhi, family-based foster care has not been in practice. Instead, group foster care has been practiced through NGOs and institutions.