Derya Yanık, the Minister of Family and Social Services, has stated that precautions have been taken for 27.520 children who have been found to be working or begging on the street, identified by 320 mobile teams across the country.

Yanık has remarked that guidance and support activities are carried out for families in order to protect children who are forced to work or beg on the streets, and to ensure that they continue their education.

Saying "We are working with the principle of 'zero tolerance for child labour' in order to prevent child labour.", Yanık has reminded that the National Program for Combating Child Labour, which has been created within the framework of ILO conventions and the Government's 2023 vision, has been implemented with all parties of working life.

Yanık has emphasized that activities are being carried out with mobile teams in order to identify children who work, beg or live on the street and to make them benefit from appropriate social services and aids.

Explaining that appropriate social service models are implemented as a result of the activities carried out by mobile teams with children and their families, Yanık has said that education, counseling and health measures about the child, Social and Economic Support (SED) service to the child's family, support through Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations, guidance service to the family or the decision to take the child into institutional care as a last resort, could be implemented.

615 children are taken into institutional care

Yanık has given the following information about the activities carried out by 320 mobile teams across the country:

“As a result of the activities, we have taken measures for our 27.520 children who have been forced to work and beg on the street. Accordingly, legal action has been initiated against the families of 1.078 children, and guidance service has been provided to the families of 16.145 children. SED service or financial support have been provided to the families of 7.628 children through the Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations. In addition, education, counseling and health measures have been implemented for 6.164 of our children, while 615 of our children have been taken into institutional care. We will continue our efforts for the healthy development of our children without compromising.”