| Missing children have long
been a social problem. In September 1992, the Child Welfare
League Foundation (C.W.L.F.) pioneered setting up a missing
children searching committee and a hotline. In its work
for missing children searching, the CWLF built a network
of governmental authorities, the media, private companies
and the public in general, there are more than 900 parents'
who requests for searching for their children.
Because of the complicity of this situation
and the potential crisis, Taiwan Provincial Government
has established a "the team of searching missing
children in Taiwan " to combine the police department,
the social department, the domicile department , and
the health department, and resolve this problem together.
To integrate the resource from government and private
sector, and build up a searching missing children network,
the Taiwan Provincial Government and C.W.L.F. cooperate
to set up a "Missing Children Data Resource Center
in Taiwan" in 1998. After the passage of constitutional
amendments to restructure the provincial government
, the Children's Bureau Ministry of the Interior and
C.W.L.F. cooperate to set up the center in 2000. This
center gathers all the related information of the missing
children and adolescence ,and use the computer system
to arrange the case management, and provide searching,
comparing, and professional social services as well.
We hope that we can increase the rate of successful
search, and improve the missing children problem effectively.
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