Rehabilitation of institutionalized children under integrated child protection scheme: A scoping review

Abstract

Child care and protection have undergone considerable changes when seen from a historical perspective. This paper provides scoping review of thirty articles collected through various search engines. A critical evaluation of the systematic literature review has been done by analyzing published articles, reports, and chapters, to bring out the thematic conceptualization of the article. The objective of the paper is to bring out the post-release perspective of institutionalized children with regard to the integrated child protection scheme in India. Follow-ups of the rehabilitated children are a must and there is a need to elaborate on how to execute the post-follow-ups of children mentioned in the existing juvenile justice act and child protection schemes in India, so as to bring out a meaningful and constructive follow-up in sync with the best interest of the child.