Who is a Child in Need of Care and Protection?
As defined by Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection of Children) Act 2000, children in need of care & protection means a child who: is found without any home or settled place or abode and without any ostensible means of subsistence; resides with a person (whether a guardian of the child or not) and such person has threatened to kill or injure the child and there is a reasonable likelihood of the threat being carried out, or has killed, abused or neglected some other child or children and there is a reasonable likelihood of the child in question being killed, abused or neglected by that person;
