purposes of foster care placement; Foster Parent means a person who has lawful or legitimate custody, care and control of a child in place of a parent; Place of safety is an appropriate place where a child in need of care and protection can be kept temporarily and includes a safety home or a foster home; Safety home is a place or part thereof for the purposes of reception, education, counselling and safety of children before conclusion of trial or in circumstances requiring placement of a child for care and protection; Reformatory centre is a home or institution or part thereof established for purposes of (a) reception, education and vocational training; and (b) counselling of children in accordance with law. 149. Orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans – children whose natural parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them; Orphan is a person aged 15 years or below who has lost at least one of his or her parents; Kinship care is a private arrangement whereby the child is looked after on an on-going or indefinite basis by relatives or friends.”; Special Needs Centre is an institution/ centre that provide the educational requirements of pupils or students suffering from any of a wide range of physical disabilities, medical conditions, intellectual difficulties, or emotional problems, including deafness, blindness, dyslexia, learning difficulties, and behavioural problems; Child headed households is children who choose to live together to the extent that the eldest sibling is willing and capable of acting as the head of the house; Church home is a place under the administration or having originated from a religious association; Transit Care centre is a temporary placement of children awaiting further placement in a short and/or long term care centre. 150. When the Commission concluded the review of the Child and Young Persons Act, it was considered proper that other legislation on children be reviewed especially that which affects areas that were not covered under the review. The Children and young Persons Act was largely a criminal justice statute but when the special Law Commission established to review it sat, it considered using the opportunity to introduce matters of care and protection in the Bill it proposed. When the Bill was enacted as the Child Care, Protection and Justice Act in 2010, it did not cover issues of adoption which are regulated by the Adoption of Children Act. 45 | P a g e

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