PROBLEM OF STREET CHILDREN AND SOCIAL WORK INTERVENTION IN INDIA

Abstract

Street children are common phenomena in the changing scenario of urban India. They are of many kinds and types bur majority of them can be divided into three categories, based on how they relate to their families, mainly for facilitating progrmme planning related to each of these categories. These are children with continuous family contact, children with occasional family contact and children without family. Street children is a term which after highlights a certain set of working and living condition rather than personal of social characteristics of the individual children themselves. The term street children should refer to all children who work in the streets of urban areas without reference to the time they spend there or the reason for being there.