The Hon’ble Supreme court, in its judgment dated 5th May 2017 in WP ( C) 102 of 2017, directed the National and State commissions for protection of Child Rights to take up the social audit of child care institutions and other bodies under JJ Act 2015 and the model rules 2016. The objective of this exercise is to independently assess “whether the goals envisaged in the JJ Act and the constitutional vision are successfully achieved in the shortest possible time”. The assessment will also evaluate the transparency and accountability in the management and functioning of these institutions, so that children in these institutions are effectively rehabilitated and reintegrated into society.

For the aforesaid purpose, Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights convened several meetings and discussions with the experts in the area of social audit and finalized the tool for the social audit. After that Commission set up a Social Audit team for the purpose of pilot social audit. The pilot social audit team conducted social audit in four child care institution (Govt Children’s Home, Thiruvananthapuram, Anjanam Girls Home, Kollam, Nirbhaya Home Idukki, Anweshi Girls Home, and Kozhikode). After the successful completion of Pretest of social audit Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights decided to call for NGO’s to handle the Social Audit in State wide. Based on that Susheela Gopalan Centre for Gender and Legal Studies were agreed to take the Social audit process in Kerala. In the first phase the NGO agreed to conduct 200 child care institutions for the social audit. We are awaiting for the report.