65 unauthorized children's homes identified from Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Probationary and Child Protection Services Department says that 65 children's homes have been identified as unauthorized places.

Probationary and Child Protection Services Commissioner Sarath Abhayagunawardhana said that he had instructed the Probationary Commissioners island wide to register them or to close these children's homes.

The department says that some of these places lack the minimum requirements for registration as a children's home.

The children's authorities island wide are awaken on the children's homes after a child was burnt to death at an unauthorized children's home in Gampaha district last week.