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National government notice giving guidelines for children who have no parents or other custodians due to the 2019nCov coronavirus outbreak. So sad to read. 
For all those officials/experts who keep comparing this illness to the seasonal flu - This article is for you.
Notice on Doing a Good Job of Assisting and Protecting Children Who Are Lack of Guardianship Due to the Impact of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic
Min Dian [2020] No. 19
Provinces, autonomous regions, municipal administrations (bureaus), municipal administrations, and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps civil administrations:
In order to thoroughly study and implement the important directive spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's epidemic prevention and control of new-type coronavirus pneumonia, fully implement the Party Central Committee and the State Council's decision-making and deployment of epidemic prevention and control work, and follow the national civil affairs system's epidemic prevention and control work television and telephone The meeting requested that the notice to strengthen the rescue and protection of children who have lost guardianship due to the impact of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic is as follows:
The first is to find reports in a timely manner. Children's supervisors and children's directors should be instructed in the unified deployment of township (street) and village (resident) committees to promptly discover children (including parents or other guardians who have confirmed infection, suspected infection, or Segregated observation, parents or other guardians due to the needs of epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic work, and other children who cannot fully fulfill their responsibilities for upbringing and guardianship due to the impact of the epidemic), and report the relevant information to the village (resident) committee, township (street) in the first place, Coordinate and resolve issues in a timely manner or report difficulties.
The second is to sort out temporary care. According to the situation of children and their families who are lack of guardianship due to the impact of the epidemic, different situations should be distinguished and temporary care services should be classified and done well. For children who have a history of close contact with the patient and whose physical condition is unknown, follow up to understand the situation during the isolated medical observation or diagnosis at the designated place. For children who have been confirmed to be non-infected or have passed the observation period and their custody responsibilities have not been fulfilled or are difficult to implement temporarily, the local civil affairs department shall coordinate the township (street) and village (resident) people's committees to implement temporary care, provide care services, or be provided by the civil affairs department Undertake temporary custody responsibility.
The third is to strengthen rescue guarantee. Strengthen the assistance and protection work for children lacking guardianship due to the impact of the epidemic, and guide localities to include it in the scope of assistance protection in a timely manner. For those who meet the requirements, timely implement social assistance policies such as temporary assistance and protection policies for children in distress to ensure that they have the right life. During the epidemic prevention and control period, if the conditions for the application of de facto unsupported children, orphans, or other children in distress are met, the streamlined examination and approval procedures shall be optimized, and relevant certificates shall be provided by remote means. Personal commitments may also be used for advance protection. Other procedures may be completed after the epidemic situation ends Make up later, and approve and approve within the month.
The fourth is to open a rescue and protection hotline. All localities should rely on prefecture-level minors' assistance and protection agencies and other means to open childcare protection hotlines for the lack of guardianship due to the impact of the epidemic and announce them to the society, respond to relevant clues in a timely manner, and provide temporary care consultation, referral services, case tracking, resources Links etc. work. The prefecture-level juvenile rescue and protection agencies should strengthen the linkage with county-level juvenile rescue and protection agencies, extend their service reach, improve service levels, and effectively do a good job in the rescue and protection work.
Local civil affairs departments at all levels must rely on local joint prevention and control mechanisms to give full play to the role of the leadership coordination mechanism for care and protection of rural left-behind children and the protection of children in distress, strengthen communication and collaboration between departments, ensure the smooth flow of information, and ensure that urgent issues are addressed in the first place To help children and their families who have lost their guardianship due to the impact of the epidemic to survive the crisis.
General Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs
February 11, 2020
http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/...nt_5477309.htm
For all those officials/experts who keep comparing this illness to the seasonal flu - This article is for you.
Notice on Doing a Good Job of Assisting and Protecting Children Who Are Lack of Guardianship Due to the Impact of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic
Min Dian [2020] No. 19
Provinces, autonomous regions, municipal administrations (bureaus), municipal administrations, and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps civil administrations:
In order to thoroughly study and implement the important directive spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's epidemic prevention and control of new-type coronavirus pneumonia, fully implement the Party Central Committee and the State Council's decision-making and deployment of epidemic prevention and control work, and follow the national civil affairs system's epidemic prevention and control work television and telephone The meeting requested that the notice to strengthen the rescue and protection of children who have lost guardianship due to the impact of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic is as follows:
The first is to find reports in a timely manner. Children's supervisors and children's directors should be instructed in the unified deployment of township (street) and village (resident) committees to promptly discover children (including parents or other guardians who have confirmed infection, suspected infection, or Segregated observation, parents or other guardians due to the needs of epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic work, and other children who cannot fully fulfill their responsibilities for upbringing and guardianship due to the impact of the epidemic), and report the relevant information to the village (resident) committee, township (street) in the first place, Coordinate and resolve issues in a timely manner or report difficulties.
The second is to sort out temporary care. According to the situation of children and their families who are lack of guardianship due to the impact of the epidemic, different situations should be distinguished and temporary care services should be classified and done well. For children who have a history of close contact with the patient and whose physical condition is unknown, follow up to understand the situation during the isolated medical observation or diagnosis at the designated place. For children who have been confirmed to be non-infected or have passed the observation period and their custody responsibilities have not been fulfilled or are difficult to implement temporarily, the local civil affairs department shall coordinate the township (street) and village (resident) people's committees to implement temporary care, provide care services, or be provided by the civil affairs department Undertake temporary custody responsibility.
The third is to strengthen rescue guarantee. Strengthen the assistance and protection work for children lacking guardianship due to the impact of the epidemic, and guide localities to include it in the scope of assistance protection in a timely manner. For those who meet the requirements, timely implement social assistance policies such as temporary assistance and protection policies for children in distress to ensure that they have the right life. During the epidemic prevention and control period, if the conditions for the application of de facto unsupported children, orphans, or other children in distress are met, the streamlined examination and approval procedures shall be optimized, and relevant certificates shall be provided by remote means. Personal commitments may also be used for advance protection. Other procedures may be completed after the epidemic situation ends Make up later, and approve and approve within the month.
The fourth is to open a rescue and protection hotline. All localities should rely on prefecture-level minors' assistance and protection agencies and other means to open childcare protection hotlines for the lack of guardianship due to the impact of the epidemic and announce them to the society, respond to relevant clues in a timely manner, and provide temporary care consultation, referral services, case tracking, resources Links etc. work. The prefecture-level juvenile rescue and protection agencies should strengthen the linkage with county-level juvenile rescue and protection agencies, extend their service reach, improve service levels, and effectively do a good job in the rescue and protection work.
Local civil affairs departments at all levels must rely on local joint prevention and control mechanisms to give full play to the role of the leadership coordination mechanism for care and protection of rural left-behind children and the protection of children in distress, strengthen communication and collaboration between departments, ensure the smooth flow of information, and ensure that urgent issues are addressed in the first place To help children and their families who have lost their guardianship due to the impact of the epidemic to survive the crisis.
General Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs
February 11, 2020
http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/...nt_5477309.htm