Attorney General's Office began monitoring than ICBF Adoption Program

On the instructions of the Attorney General's Office, Alejandro Ordóñez Maldonado, for the Defense of the Rights of the Child, Youth and Families introduced a monitoring process today than Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF), in order to verify compliance with the constitutional and legal obligations in connection with the organization Adoption Program nationally and internationally as the authority in central Colombia.

This monitoring provided for in the Annual Operating Plan of the Special Prosecutor, is extended to five institutions authorized in Bogota to develop adoption programs (IAPAS), in order to verify compliance with the legal and technical guidelines by institutions and the Care Services Program Specialized Protection (supply contracts), pursuant to the provisions of the Code for Children and Adolescents.

28 public servants of the Control Agency form the committee to check whether the Adoption Program is aimed at guaranteeing the rights of children and adolescents and determine whether the development of the Adoption Program has been implemented protection doctrine integral. Of the visits will rise the respective acts and submit a report to ICBF.

This preventive action the Attorney General's Office complies with the above monitoring role for preventive and management control to public entities and individuals who perform public functions in defense and guarantee of the rights of children and adolescents and their family context.