Rescuing railway children : reuniting families from India's railway platforms / Malcolm Harper, Lalitha Iyer.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9788132117865
- 8132117867
- 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
- 362.74 23
- HV800.I52 H37 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Print version record.
<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', particularly through the experiences of Sathi, an NGO based in Bangalore. This organisation has chosen to work with children on railway platforms across India with the intention of reuniting them with families wherever possible. <br /><br />The book deals with platform outreach and focuses on shelters close to the stations. The.
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