Tulfo mulling 3-strike policy
Tulfo said it’s better for government to take care of street children if their parents would continuously neglect them
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Daily TribuneTulfo said it’s better for government to take care of street children if their parents would continuously neglect them
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Social Welfare Secretary Erwin Tulfo said Monday he plans to reimplement a three-strike policy for street children to ensure that they are kept at home by their parents.
Tulfo explained that under the policy, parents shall be barred from getting back their children once they had already been rescued thrice by government.
"Now, we will tighten it up a bit more. What we call three strikes. When the LGU government has rescued your child from the street three times, we will see if the DSWD can take care of these children," Tulfo said.
He said the agency will consult with legal experts from Congress, the Office of the Solicitor General and Malacañang to ensure the plan would be perfectly legal.
Tulfo said it's better for government to take care of street children if their parents would continuously neglect them.
In some local government units, parents of children rescued off the streets are only penalized with community service. Tulfo said the street kids almost always return to begging.
A similar "three-strike policy" against the parents of street kids was implemented in 2013 under former Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman.
