P a g e | 36 Under the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act (2011) a child victim shall be reunified with their family as quickly as possible. Administrative Social workers employed by MoSD and residential care facilities work with officers in the CGPU to identify family members of orphaned or vulnerable children and children on the streets, and attempt to reunify them. Where it is determined that a child is not able to be reunified or it is not appropriate to do so, the social worker will investigate other family members to care for the child. Only where these measures have been exhausted will the social worker decide to place the child in a residential care facility as a last resort. Children may also be placed there in the interim while case workers locate family members. Where a child's family cannot be located or no one is deemed a suitable care giver, the child will be placed in a care facility while determining whether that child is adoptable. It is at this stage that more thorough investigations are conducted as to the child’s parentage and previous care-givers whereabouts. If unable to care for the child parents, if found, or next of kin will be asked to sign a consent to allow the child to be adopted. If no parent or next of kin can be located and have not come forward in the three months after the child was abandoned, then the child can be deemed able to be adopted Currently foster homes outside of institutional homes, do not exist in Lesotho. The CPW Act envisages private homes being registered with the MoSD to care for children in the surrounds of a family home. This is not yet a reality. A part of the costing of the CPW Act which is currently underway is to put a price on the implementation of private fostering in Lesotho. Non-governmental organisations like Kick4Life work with children living on and of the streets. While it is not specifically a mandate of the organisation to reunify families, social workers do whatever is in the child's best interest and within the organisations financial capabilities. Difficulties Financial resources are limited in searching for children as it is not specifically budgeted for by GoL. Transport is consistently lacking and it is often time-consuming to go searching in geographically remote locations. Sometimes families can live several days walk from a main road. Well-intentioned social workers often lack the investigative skills to do this sort of work and police are often un-obliging in their assistance or unable owing to similar resource shortcomings. Social workers and residential care facility staff further, do not make proper use of the three month rule, whereby an abandoned child can be considered adoptable if no family has claimed them within that time.