To help protect children from being abused! But, will it work??? Only time will tell…from the Front Page Sections, translated…
There’d been many incidents of child abuse, and before National Women & Children’s Day, the Legislative Department passed the amendment of the “Children & Adolescent Protectiong Act” yesterday. In the future, the nursing centers will need to have cameras installed, and the Department of Health Welfare needs to set up the investigative files database for children who died under age six; in order to prevent the predatory instructors, the awful nannies from hurting children, and, this amendment also included the setting up of a database of unfitting caretakers, and in the future, the welfare foundation’s personnel will go through a thorough scanning of their backgrounds for the qualifications.
The Police will be Allowed to Enter onto a Private Property in Suspicions of Child Abuse
The amendment also specified that the professionals who are in the units or homes to make the visits, if they were denied entrance, if the social services suspected child endangerment, they can call on the support of the police to help them enter onto the property by force.
The legislators from the DPP said, that they hoped that the laws will get passed before Mother’s Day this year.
Identifying the Predatory Instructors Before Hiring
The Children’s Protective Act Section 81 “Prevention of Predatory Instructors” stated that if the actions of rape, or serious cases of sexual harassments or sexual bullying done by individuals, if confirmed by the management units, the accused will get taken off their posts, even IF their crimes aren’t confirmed, they will be taken out of the daycare center, and, the personnel being hired by the children and teens foundations, the authorities must check closely at the qualifications, and the applicants needed to provide their certifications, which is valid for three months.
Child abuse or physical punishments can get fined between $60,000N.T. to $600,000N.T.s; the child welfare facilities that didn’t check the workers for prior records of sexual misbehaviors, will get fined between $50,000 N.T. and $250,000N.T.s, and mandated to improve, and, if th facilities didn’t make any changes, then, the facilities will continue to get fined, and, when needed, will be, shut down.
Setting Up the Legislature to Help Children in the System Find Their Next of Kin
And, due to how many of the adopted children would want to find their own families of origin as adults, the added amendment stated that the managing units of child welfare shall provide such services, and, when necessary, they will solicit help from the local land offices, or the police department, or other related government units to help the individuals find their next of kin.
But, the Child Wefare League’s policy center manager, Lee stated, that from a survey, it showed, that most mothers believed, that the key to reduce instances of child abuse is NOT in setting up the surveillance cameras, but to reduce the teacher-student ratio.
Lee stated, that Japan had the same problems as Taiwan, and, some of the privately owned nursing centers reduced the costs, and exploited the workers, to one teacher to more students, and this had, increased the chances of child abuse. He believed, that the government needs to control the teacher-student ratio effectively, he’d suggested, that the ratio of student to teacher needed to be lowered to four-to-one from the original five-to-one.
And so, this, is the government’s plans, to reduce instances of child abuse in the schools, but, will it work? Nobody knows, until the next incident happens, if there’s a next incident, that means, that the systems still didn’t, quite work, either that the punishments for these predators/abusive adults aren’t harsh enough, or, there’s need to adjust the teacher-student ratio to even less number of students PER instructor.
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