Child Protection

The core function of child protection services is to ensure children in Lesotho live in an environment free from abuse, violence, exploitation and neglect within supportive family settings so that they have their rights fulfilled and their full potential realized.

Services provided under this department are; alternative care, under which are Adoption and Foster care.
Adoption is when someone other than a child's biological parents becomes the legal parent of a child while foster care is for temporary care of a child other than her or his biological parents.