Child and Juvenile Welfare and Rights Protection Act Article 23

Special municipalities and county (city) governments shall establish integrated service mechanisms and encourage, guide, entrust private organizations, or independently implement the following child and juvenile welfare measures:1. Establish a premature infant reporting system and provide tracking, visiting, and caring services.2. Establish an early reporting system for children with developmental delays and provide early intervention services.3. Provide child care services.4. Provide consultation services for children, juveniles, and their families.5. Provide parent education for children, juveniles, and their parents.6. Provide child care, family living assistance, or medical subsidies as needed for those unable to raise their children under twelve years of age or their wards.7. Provide living assistance, educational assistance, or medical subsidies for juveniles who are unable to earn a living or are in school, and have no one with parental obligations or whose parental obligors are unable to support their lives, and assist them in developing self-reliance skills.8. Subsidize medical expenses for premature infants, children with rare diseases, seriously ill children and juveniles, and children with developmental delays whose parental obligors are unable to pay.9. Provide appropriate placement for children and juveniles unsuitable for family care or who have run away from home.10. Provide appropriate placement for unescorted children and juveniles.11. Provide appropriate placement, living assistance, medical subsidies, child care subsidies, and other necessary assistance for children, juveniles, and their children who face difficulties due to pregnancy or childbirth.12. Provide after-school care services for children.13. Provide self-reliance adaptation assistance for juveniles who are unable to return home after placement.14. Provide services such as prevention, education, promotion, and training for child and juvenile safety and accident injuries.15. Other welfare services for children, juveniles, and their families.The qualifications, conditions, procedures, amounts, and other relevant matters for child care, living assistance, and medical subsidies mentioned in Subparagraphs 6 to 8 and 11 of the preceding paragraph shall be determined by the central and special municipality competent authorities, respectively.The handling methods for reporting, searching, placement methods, requirements, and tracking of unescorted children and juveniles mentioned in Subparagraph 10 of Paragraph 1 shall be determined by the central competent authority.
中文原文 兒童及少年福利與權益保障法第23條
直轄市、縣(市)政府,應建立整合性服務機制,並鼓勵、輔導、委託民間或自行辦理下列兒童及少年福利措施:
一、建立早產兒通報系統,並提供追蹤、訪視及關懷服務。
二、建立發展遲緩兒童早期通報系統,並提供早期療育服務。
三、辦理兒童托育服務。
四、對兒童、少年及其家庭提供諮詢服務。
五、對兒童、少年及其父母辦理親職教育。
六、對於無力撫育其未滿十二歲之子女或受監護人者,視需要予以托育、家庭生活扶助或醫療補助。
七、對於無謀生能力或在學之少年,無扶養義務人或扶養義務人無力維持其生活者,予以生活扶助、協助就學或醫療補助,並協助培養其自立生活之能力。
八、早產兒、罕見疾病、重病兒童、少年及發展遲緩兒童之扶養義務人無力支付醫療費用之補助。
九、對於不適宜在家庭內教養或逃家之兒童及少年,提供適當之安置。
十、對於無依兒童及少年,予以適當之安置。
十一、對於因懷孕或生育而遭遇困境之兒童、少年及其子女,予以適當之安置、生活扶助、醫療補助、托育補助及其他必要協助。
十二、辦理兒童課後照顧服務。
十三、對結束安置無法返家之少年,提供自立生活適應協助。
十四、辦理兒童及少年安全與事故傷害之防制、教育、宣導及訓練等服務。
十五、其他兒童、少年及其家庭之福利服務。
前項第六款至第八款及第十一款之托育、生活扶助及醫療補助請領資格、條件、程序、金額及其他相關事項之辦法,分別由中央及直轄市主管機關定之。
第一項第十款無依兒童及少年之通報、協尋、安置方式、要件、追蹤之處理辦法,由中央主管機關定之。

English translation for reference only; the Chinese text prevails. Not legal advice.