Railway Children is examining the Indian Railway network as a means of protecting vulnerable children. The experiment is exploring the potential of training and supporting railway personnel to protect vulnerable children and reunify them with their families by co-ordinating with District Child Protection Units (DCPU), and not relying on NGOs.
It seeks to strengthen coordination between DCPUs to effectively reintegrate vulnerable children with their families and prevent unnecessary separation of children from safe family environments. The project also aims to activate innovation through placing a trained ‘Fellow’ at a systemic level to facilitate convergence between railway staff and existing child protection officers to ensure effective case management of vulnerable children.