Main Functions

  • Key function

    1.Provide mental and physical protection to opened, disabled ,destitute deserted and abused children.

  • 2. Decrease the institutionalization of the children.

    3. Socialization of the institutionalized children.

    4. Enhance the planning and the management level of the development.

  • Diagnostic characters of the offenders who are under probation treat them and direct them to the right path ability and produce them to the society.
  •  Observing the characters of the children and younger sisters who are to be rehabilitated through certified schools rehabilitating and sending them to the society after providing proper treatment accordingly.
  • Providing children welfare for orphaned desituated, abandoned, abused, disable and needy children through caring protection and education.
  • Providing security for the children who were under the activities of criminal law till the court order is given.
  • Conducting programmes to educate the public to prohibit child abuse involving children to narcotics and to protect children rights.
  • Providing abandoned, orphaned children for suitable local persons for adoption.
  •  Registration of Day care centers child development centers supervision and financial assistance
  • Providing of physical and mental facilities such as Food, Education and Health in institutionalized children.
  • Providing of temporary detentions and other facilities for children on court verdicts.
  • Providing of protection in child mothers by Child Mothers’ Centers.
  • Giving protection in infants through Government Receiving Center.
  • Organizing of various seminars, conducting of cultural & religious ceremonies and evaluating of talents of children in child development centers.
  • Handing over of institutionalized children to parents, relatives and guardians.
  • Making over children to adopt legally.
  • Registration of couples with no children in Child Care Department of Western Province, making them aware on opportunities and facilitate to adopt children legally.
  • Providing of self-employment equipment for vocationally trained children.
  • Arrangement of employment opportunities for institutionalized children.
  • Arrangement of weddings.
  • Providing of maintenance expenses, ad hoc aids, incentives to Masters/Mistress for the welfare of institutionalized children by the Department.
  • Registration and re-registration of 120 Child Development Centers.
  • Upgrading the quality of child development centers while introduction of grading and evaluation systems.
  • Development of the infrastructures of Government & Voluntary Child Development Centers.
  • Preparation of child friendly environments in Detention Homes, Certified Schools and Child Development Centers located in Ranmuthugala and Makola.
  • Initiation of special probation unit which is 24 hour operated under the contact number of 0112-078 351 to obtain complaints related to child abuses and offences
  • Providing of school equipment for institutional inclined children belong to 4,500 numbers of low income families in Western Province.
  • Awarding of Sisumina bursaries for institutional inclined children in low income families in Western Province.
  • Providing of self-employment equipment for strengthening of parents of families where there are institutional inclined children.
  • Appropriate person guardianship, under court orders and probation orders protecting children and adults while in the society.
  • Making the community aware to minimize negative impacts on children caused by child abuses and drug usage.
  • Solving in  family problems.
  • Staff welfare and training.
  • Maintaining of a  personal files of them are physically maintained at Head Office.
  • Upgrading of department web site.
  • Giving aids and evaluation of 30 Day Care Centers.
  • Constitute laws related to Child Development Centers.
  • Organizing of meetings for Institution Heads, Probation Officers, Management Committees and various committee meetings such as child adaptation.