Earlier this week, the Ministry of Social Solidarity and Save the Children International launched the first edition of a training program to enhance the skills of rapid intervention teams in implementing the child safeguarding code of conduct.
Head of the ministry’s central rapid intervention team, Mohamed Youssef, said in a statement last Sunday that the training will be executed in stages to include different governorates.
Youssef went on to add that the training aims to develop the skills of rapid intervention teams in all governorates, for being one of the Social Solidarity Ministry’s mechanisms for protecting homeless children and the elderly, safeguarding children within social care institutions, dealing with cases of human trafficking and illegal immigration, verifying the implementation of child protection policy and applying the code of conduct.
The rapid intervention teams receive reports on abuses against residents of social care institutions, homeless children, and the elderly through the ministry’s hotline (16439), the Cabinet’s hotline (16528), or through what is spotted via mass media outlets and social media sites.
