Rescuing railway children : reuniting families from India's railway platforms /

<Strong>Rescuing Railway Children</strong> focuses on runaway children in India who have used trains to take them away from home, and who live on railway station platforms and in trains. It presents the issues and challenges of reaching out to these 'railway children', particul...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harper, Malcolm, 1935-
Otros Autores: Iyer, Lalitha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2013.
Temas:
Child welfare > India.
Social work with children > India.
Runaway children > India.
Railroad stations > India.
Service social aux enfants > Inde.
Enfants fugueurs > Inde.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Child welfare.
Railroad stations.
Runaway children.
Social work with children.
India.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • India's railway children
  • Conventions and policies versus practice and reality
  • Platform presence
  • At the shelter
  • Protection for children in need
  • A re-integration camp
  • Homecoming
  • Spreading the lessons of experience
  • Who really knows a child's need?
  • Care and protection services for children in the UK
  • The future railway children in the next twenty years.

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