The executive regulations of the law on the protection of orphaned and abused children and adolescents were amended

According to the report of Fars news agency’s judicial group, the approval of the Cabinet of Ministers regarding the amendment of the executive regulations of the Law on the Protection of Unsupervised Children and Adolescents was announced.

In the 20th session of April of this year, the Council of Ministers approved the proposal of the Ministry of Justice and based on Article 138 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The executive regulation of the Law on the Protection of Unsupervised and Mistreated Children and Adolescents was amended as follows:

The following texts are added to Article 1 as paragraphs “Z”, “R” and “G”:

“Z”: Institution: a legal entity, whether it is a center, association or institution, which has a license to establish an organization in the implementation of Article 36 of the law, and the subject of its activity is the support and care of orphaned and abused children and adolescents.

“R”: Care institution: an institution that, according to Article 36 of the law, was established with the permission of the organization and is responsible for the round-the-clock care of children and adolescents separated by age and gender in a common environment.

“G”: Family-centered care institution: an institution that, based on Article 36 of the law, with the permission of the organization, is responsible for the establishment, management and supervision of the care and care of orphaned and poorly cared for children and adolescents in families.

Articles 13 and 14 are amended and the following text is added as Article 13:

Article 13: The organization can hand over the orphaned and abused children and teenagers who are or will be introduced to the organization by the order of the judicial authority until the final assignment is determined by the judicial authority, temporarily directly or through family-oriented care institutions to qualified families.

Note: The implementation guidelines of this article in matters such as the model of family-centered care and care and regulations related to how to identify and qualify families and institutions, how to train and prepare families, terms of handover, how to reunify children and adolescents, monitoring the situation They, the necessary training for the applicants and how to build culture, within three months from the date of notification of this approval letter by the National Child Rights Authority and the country’s welfare organization in cooperation with the country’s social organization, presidential office of women and family affairs and the national population headquarters, prepare and It is implemented after the approval of the Minister of Justice.

In Article 14, after the phrase “this regulation”, the phrase “is with the National Authority of Children’s Rights and” is added and the phrase “and also” is deleted.

It should be noted that the resolution approved by the meeting of the Council of Ministers dated 01/20/1402 regarding “Amendment of the Executive Regulations of the Law on the Protection of Unsupervised Children and Adolescents” was announced by the First Vice President through letter number 13749 on 01/30/1402. .

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