Rescuing railway children : reuniting families from India's railway platforms / Malcolm Harper, Lalitha Iyer ; with an invited contribution from Kate Bulman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harper, Malcolm, 1935-

Contributor:

Iyer, Lalitha.

Bulman, Kate.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child welfare--India.

Child welfare.

Social work with children--India.

Social work with children.

Runaway children--India.

Runaway children.

Railroad stations--India.

Railroad stations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rescuing Railway Children 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. The book deals with platform outreach and focuses on shelters close to the stations. The reuniting process is examine

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

81-321-1811-1

81-321-1661-5

81-321-1786-7

OCLC:

864141016