{"id":223794,"date":"2026-02-14T23:51:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-state-department-for-childrens-services-reaffirms-plan-to-end-child-institutionalisation-by-2032\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T23:51:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:51:56","slug":"kenya-state-department-for-childrens-services-reaffirms-plan-to-end-child-institutionalisation-by-2032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-state-department-for-childrens-services-reaffirms-plan-to-end-child-institutionalisation-by-2032\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: State Department for Children&#8217;s Services Reaffirms Plan to End Child Institutionalisation By 2032"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Kisumu \u2014 The Principal Secretary for Children Services, Caren Agengo, has reaffirmed the government&#8217;s commitment to end child institutionalisation in Kenya by 2032, saying children should grow up in families and not in institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Agengo said the government is implementing a 10-year Care Reform Strategy anchored in the Children&#8217;s Act of 2022 to transition children from institutional care to family-based care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The plan includes tracing families, reintegrating children back home and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602130395.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kisumu \u2014 The Principal Secretary for Children Services, Caren Agengo, has reaffirmed the government&#8217;s commitment to end child institutionalisation in Kenya by 2032, saying children should grow up in families and not in institutions. Agengo said the government is implementing a 10-year Care Reform Strategy anchored in the Children&#8217;s Act of 2022 to transition children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":223795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8438,10169,8399,22533,4688,430,257,7586,8132,7155,254,6017],"class_list":["post-223794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-child","tag-childrens","tag-department","tag-institutionalisation","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-plan","tag-reaffirms","tag-services","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}