The policy implemented by the National System for the Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents for the Comprehensive Protection of the rights of minors under institutional care, in the department of Santa Ana, year 2014

Abstract

El Salvador with the ratification of the Convention of the Children’s rights acquired the commitment of adopting those legislative measures and necessary policies to provide effectiveness to the kids and adolescents’ rights. The goal is to give guarantee in integral protection to them, in harmony with the established in the article 4 in the Convention of the Children’s rights, that literally says “The Countries being part of it will adopt all the administrative and legislative measures and in other type in order to give effectiveness to the recognized rights in this Convention. Incorporating the economic, social and cultural rights, the Countries that are being part of it will adopt this measures with all the maximum resources they have available and, when necessary, in the frame of international cooperation”. Therefore, the compliance of those obligations bring juridical life to the Law of Integral protection for children and adolescents (LEPINA), instrument that creates the System of Integral Protection for Children and Adolescents that is ruled under the principles of legality, democratic participation, efficacy and efficiency.

This research investigated and analyzed the actual status of how the National System of Integral Protection works and the im plementation of the National Policy of Integral Protection for Teenagers and Adolescents. Both are a conducting axis of the public policies that are being developed and executed in Santa Ana by the private and public institutions that belong to the Inte gral Protection System. These institutions should work upon any circumstance according to the higher benefits for these children and adolescents as active subjects of the right. It deals about des cribing and evaluating the breach that may exist between the le gislative command that belongs to the Law of Integral Protection for the Children and Adolescents (LEPINA) and the real work of the System of Integral Protection, being based on the documen tal information available and interviews administered to the key components that participate in the system.