A Care Order is provided for children who are suffering significant harm or are likely to suffer under their parents care and children in danger. Under the Care Order, the Probation and Social Welfare Officer or an authorised person makes an application for a care order placing the child under the care of the warden of an approved home or with foster parents. During the period of separation from the parents, the wardens of the approved home or the foster parents have parental responsibility for the child. The child‟s contact with the parents while in the approved home or with the foster parents is encouraged, unless it is not in the best interest of the child. The warden (where the child placed in an approved home) or the Probation and Social Welfare Officer (where the child is placed in a foster home) has responsibility of ensuring that communication is maintained with parents of the child. The Children Act specifies the duty of the Probation and Social Welfare Officer to work with the parents, guardians or relatives to whom the child is expected to return after the termination of the care order. In this respect, the Probation and Social Welfare Officer is required to provide the child and family with counselling, before, during and after the child‟s return. Assistance may also be obtained from members of the community who can help to resolve the problems that caused the care order to be made. In practical terms, these provisions have not been widely implemented due to the Uganda setting. Foster homes and remand homes are not considered the best option for child care but only used as a last resort. There are also disadvantages that come with such orders considering the resources available to these homes. There are however, few cases where fostering has been implemented. These are mainly in urban areas and for very short period of times. 6.4 Family Reunification (Article 25 (2) b) In Uganda, no specific legislation exists to address the right to reunification as provided for in the UN CRC and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. The Immigration Act (Cap 63) regulates only immigration and not family reunification. Development partners, especially UNICEF and ICRC have however coordinated reunification of formerly abducted children from Sudan with their families. They apply international standards to re-unify children to their families. This often begins with the children going through, at least three months of psycho-social support in established centres. 6.5 Sale, Trafficking and Abduction (Article 29) An estimated 30,00010 children in northern and western Uganda have been abducted by the rebels of the LRA and the ADF since 1986. Measures have been taken by the Government through the UPDF‟s Operation Iron Fist (OIF) and through UN agencies, notably UNICEF, to recover and ensure that these children are returned, rehabilitated and resettled with their families. Such measures include the enactment of the Amnesty Act, the normalisation of diplomatic relations with Sudan, Uganda-Sudan psychosocial cross-border initiative and various other efforts by civil society organizations at local, national and international levels. 10 UNICEF, 2004 20