Taipei, April 4 (CNA) A welfare group held a press conference Tuesday -- Children's Day -- in which it named 2006 as "The Year of Putting Children First" and urged the public to focus on the rights of children.
The Child Welfare League Foundation (CWLF) submitted four demands calling for more attention to be paid to children rights and more national budget to be appropriated for children. The press conference was also attended by Minister of the Interior Lee Yi-yang.
The Ministry of the Interior (MOI) has decided to subsidize "high-risk families" by providing each child in such families with NT$ 3,000 per month, Lee said, adding that the MOI also plans to boost the number of social worker in Taiwan from 189 to 508.
Wang Yu-min, head of the CWLF, also asked that more children-friendly television programs be created and that Children's Day be reinstated as a national holiday.
In addition, the CWLF called for improvements to the educational environment and healthcare system for children, with parenting education designed to prevent child abuse.