Children in distress include street children and poor children, who overlap with left-behind children. In addition, there are disabled children, seriously ill children and children from difficult families, which are also overlapping and overlapping. The living conditions of these unprotected children are worrying. In recent years, there have been vicious cases such as children starving to death at home and street children suffocating in garbage bins.

1999 The concept of "children in distress" was first mentioned in the paper, and was included in the government document in 2006. In 20 13, it appeared in the Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues of Comprehensively Deepening Reform. At the end of 20 10, with the promulgation of "Opinions on Strengthening the Protection of Orphans", the protection of orphans and disabled children with AIDS began to be institutionalized-from the central government to the county level, orphans can receive living expenses no less than that of 600 yuan every month.

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Helping children in distress involves more than 20 departments and is a huge systematic project. If each department does its own thing, it will lead to poor connection and a "blind spot".

For example, the compulsory education stage belongs to the education department, the subsistence allowance for poor families belongs to the civil affairs department, medical care belongs to the health department, rehabilitation care belongs to the welfare home, and vagrancy or temporary loss of dependence belongs to the shelter. Skills training needs to find human resources and social security departments, and capital declaration needs to go to the financial department. In addition, trade unions, youth league committees, justice, public security, agriculture, disabled persons' federations and women's federations all have their own functions.

In the opinion issued by the State Council on 20 16, it is clearly proposed to establish and improve the rescue system and work network, requiring all departments to form a cooperative linkage mechanism, with the civil affairs and women and children's working committees taking the lead in comprehensive coordination, guidance and supervision, and "one-door acceptance and collaborative handling". The opinion also puts forward the basic principles of "family responsibility, government leading, social participation and classified protection".

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