The Children and Young Persons Ordinance No 48 of 1952 was enacted and enforced in Sri Lanka.A separate Department, titled the Department of Probation and Child Care Services, was established on 1st October 1956, bringing the probation functions too under its purview.The objectives of the Department as envisaged by the Government are as follows.

• Limiting the imprisonment of offenders by rehabilitating them using probation strategies with a view to re-integrate them to the society as good citizens.
  
• Taking very lenient and Mitigated judicial actions in respect of children and young persons
  
• Provision of requisite service to needy children and young persons
  
• Offering such children, as far as possible the opportunity to live with their parents and provision of due protection
  

With the establishment of Provincial Council system in Sri Lanka, some administrative powers were vested with the Provincial Councils. Hence some of the functions of the Department have been assigned to Provincial Commissioners of Probation.

 

Department of Probation and Child Care Services in North Central Province is seekeing donation for the Child Protection Fund.