His Excellency Afaf Ibrahim Al Marri, Head of the Department of Social Services, member of the Executive Council of the Emirate of Sharjah, confirmed that the Department of Social Services in Sharjah pays special attention to the child and the protection of his rights, as it always seeks to provide various types of protection, support and care for him in all aspects, embodying the vision of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council, Ruler of Sharjah, may God protect and protect him, and in implementation of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Sharjah, Chairman of the Executive Council, in implementing projects or initiatives and support services that would Share in protecting and securing the rights of the child, advancing society and achieving happiness for its members. This came during the participation of His Excellency Afaf Al Marri; In the activities of the first Sharjah Child Protection Forum, organized by the Sharjah Network for Child Protection, in cooperation with the Sharjah Child-Friendly Office, at the Sharjah Municipality Theater, under the slogan: Child protection is everyone's responsibility. It started by the Head of the Social Services Department; Its participation by presenting the department’s efforts and services in the field of child protection within the social axis entitled “Efforts of social institutions for the protection of the child” with an introductory overview of the department’s most important services that seek to achieve social security and welfare for various members of society, and provide care and social protection for vulnerable groups, in addition to The department seeks to serve the community by licensing social licenses, educating the community about educational programs, and providing volunteer opportunities. Child protection services and tools .. During it, Al-Marri reviewed the protection services and tools that secure the child's rights, which included a number of mechanisms that were represented in the allocation of a 24-hour child helpline through the toll-free number (800700 35), which is the first line dedicated to child assistance in the United Arab Emirates, And he holds a membership ((CHI), confirming that the line has received about 4 thousand calls, while the number of communications received by it reached about 462 thousand and 2007 communications, since its establishment in XNUMX AD. The tools also included child support services provided by a team consisting of a psychologist, social worker, and legal researcher; Since 1900 of the children's rights referred from the child helpline notifications have been secured. In addition to the Prisoners’ Forum Center, which works to enable the child to see his separated parents by providing a safe environment by implementing the provisions of the vision received from the Family Court, where more than 16 visions have been secured since 304. An incubator environment to preserve the dignity of the child .. In the same context, the Social Welfare Home for Children shelteres children who lack social care and the abused, temporarily until their conditions improve or they are embraced by the families of Brielle, as the house provides them with all the services that preserve their dignity and provide them with a decent life to integrate them into society, and since 2006 benefited from The home is about 563 children from groups of unknown parents, children with no mother, children of inmates over the age of two, and children exposed to violence. In addition to embracing alternative families, since 300 AD, 250 children have been nurtured across 1984 families. In addition to sheltering and caring for children of female inmates of the correctional and punitive facilities of the Sharjah Police General Command under two years of age in Dar Al-Aman, the total number of children who have been cared for is about 790 children, since the establishment of the house in 2008. 664 Resolutions and 500 wills to protect children. Afaf Al-Marri also highlighted; Highlighting the achievements of the Permanent Committee for the Care of Children Deprived of Social Welfare, which was formed since 1986, as 141 meetings were held. These meetings resulted in the issuance of 664 decisions, in addition to directing more than 500 recommendations concerned with child protection. On the initiatives that contributed and contribute to the protection of the child, it was represented in the child protection policy document that it issued in early 2018 targeting the child protection committees in hospitals, centers, schools and institutions concerned with children. As well as the status of judicial police, which is a decision by the Minister of Justice to grant the department’s employees the status of judicial police, who number about 32 specialists, in addition to the electronic vision project, which allows children to see parents inmates of the administration of the penal and correctional institution through an electronic platform. In addition, the "Eshraqa" program to rehabilitate abused children, using modern scientific methods and programs, to reach results that will reflect on the child's condition in the future to achieve psychological and social stability. Educational support mechanisms in protection .. Add to the initiatives and programs through which the department seeks to protect the child; The “School Facilities” initiative to help children with special needs who find it difficult to continue school on their own, as well as the “Noon Caravan” initiative to educate children deprived of the right to education, where about 157 children have benefited from the initiative since its launch in September 2016. As well as the social education programs organized by the department through holding awareness and cultural lectures and workshops to spread awareness among children and their parents, in addition to the voluntary harvest camp that is organized during school holidays with 4 camps per year. In addition to "debates and research", which means stopping the aspects that negatively affect child protection, 3 studies were conducted, namely; The effect of using foreign foreign labor in the home on the upbringing of children, as well as the methods of parental treatment and domestic violence against children and the impact of social networking sites on social relations and community security.