Discuss the children’s Act 2001.

Discuss the children’s Act 2001.

Background

- The date of assent: 31st December 2001
- Date of commencement: 1st March, 2002
- The enactment of Children’s Act of 2001 gives effect to the obligations of Kenya under the United Nations Convention on the -Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Children (ACRWC).
- It is an Act of Parliament to make provision for parental responsibility, fostering, adoption, custody, maintenance, guardianship, care and protection of children, to make provision for the administration of children’s institutions
- Provides for the rights of the child and seeks to enhance the welfare of the child
- Merges the provision of other laws that affect children: adoption Act; Guardianship of the Infants, Children and Young Persons

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marto answered the question on May 10, 2019 at 07:06

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