Egypt’s Minister of Social Solidarity Nevine el-Qabbag chaired on Sunday an expanded meeting of the ‘Case Management Unit for Children at Risk’ working group.
A number of business partners from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) attended the meeting.
The minister reviewed challenges facing the unit during the past period and stressed the need to draw up a road map to organise the work of the unit at the Ministry of Social Solidarity.
The system, launched in 2019, is aimed to provide support and assistance to children, their families and caregivers through interventions consistent with their needs and priorities.
The participants in the meeting reviewed the Unit’s achievements made at the level of 14 governorates, to reach more than 19,000 cases of children at risk.
Case management system is based on measures of social and psychological risks of children, their families and caregivers, including children in care institutions, children of Takaful and Karama families, foster children and those who have been subjected to abuse or violence.
Concluding the meeting, they agreed on the need to set up an electronic system for the exchange of data on children at risk across the country through a team of psychologists from various entities of the Ministry of Social Solidarity.
