Department of Probation and Childcare Services


The department plays key roles in line with national policies and international standards, ensuring the rights of all children and providing equal opportunities to them with specific attention to orphaned, abandoned and destitute children and children in conflict with law. Implementation of programs to ensure child right to survival and development stated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, providing welfare facilities for needy children, coordinate probation and child care services with provincial councils, refurbishment and implementing programs inchildren’s homes, provision of foster care services are some of the major functions of the Department. Child rights monitoring committees, children’s club/ children’s council program, conducting child-led researches, and child-centric disaster risk reduction programs are also in action.

Our Vision

A sensitive and a friendly society for children with ensured child rights.

Our Mission

Ensuring the rights of all children and providing them equal opportunities in line with national policies and international standards with specific attention to orphaned, abandoned and destitute children and children in conflict with law.

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