CHILDLINE a national 24-hour free phone emergency outreach service for children in need of care and protection responds to the needs of the children and links them to long term services. In many cases children have to be repatriated (children who are lost or who have run away from home and now want to go back) to another state in which case it is necessary to know appropriate organizations / services which can help out in the process. Many a time it is also necessary to access specialised services which may not be available in the city. In such cases it is necessary to have access to the contact detail of organizations providing this service closest to the city.
The National Resource Directory is a compilation of contact details of all organizations offering specialized services for children, in the 73 CHILDLINE cities. The Directory is presented in 4 volumes (North, South, East & West), each of the volumes presents data from a particular geographical zone of the country. The volumes are further divided on the basis of cities and type of service and has a total of 17 types of services.
CHILDLINE in India – An Analysis of call to 1098
CHILDLINE has emerged as the voice of children in India, representing the concerns of children as they express them. It is a source of primary information on the status of children. Every call received by CHILDLINE is a strong comment on the status of children in India. CHILDLINE data is critical, in not only determining the status of children in India, but also emerging trends in their conditions and also provide vital information to service providers and policy makers on the needs and vulnerabilities
of children.
This publication is a comparative analysis of ChildNET data for the years 2003-04 and 2004-05.
ChildNET is a step in the direction of analysing CHILDLINE data. This publication presents a national comparative analysis of CHILDLINE data for the years 2003-04 and 2004-05. It also gives a statistical comparison of data for the same period for 55 cities. Although this data analyses the performance of CHILDLINE through only a few basic parameters it gives important feedback to cities about the impact of the service, the users of the service, reasons for calling CHILDLINE, nature of abuse faced by children, etc. It provides raw material for more indepth research and analysis on the status of children in India and highlights how child helpline (CHILDLINE) data can be critical in monitoring the status of children in India. While such data is being monitored since1999, this is the
first time that they are being published for a wider audience concerned with child care and protection. This is the first in a series of annual ChildNET publications that are to follow.
CHILDLINE India Foundation
Nana Chowk Municipal School, 2nd Floor,
Frere Bridge - Low Level,
Nana Chowk,
Near Grant Road Station,
Mumbai 400007
India.
Website: http://www.childlineindia.org.in/index.htm
Email: dial1098@childlineindia.org.in
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