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(d) Appropriate provision for family responsibilities under national income security schemes, based on the guiding principles and suggestions for application set forth in the Income Security Recommendation, 1944, and including more particularly—(i) The provision under insurance schemes of supplementary allowances for dependent children designed to meet contingencies and emergencies which destroy or impair the wage-earners ability to provide a livelihood for his children, and of maternity allowances; (ii) The provision of similar allowances under other income security schemes; and (iii) General measures of social assistance to secure the wellbeing of dependent children and young persons: ( e ) Services through which homeless normal children and young persons, if not placed in private homes, are cared for in circumstances approximating to home life as closely as possible, in order to place such children on an equal footing with other children of their age as regards well-being, health care, and general and vocational education suited to their aptitudes. B. Health and Social Protection 6. In order to safeguard the general health and well-being of all children and young persons, the following services and facilities should be provided as a minimum:—• Medical care and health services—(а) Medical care services, curative and preventive, for pregnant women, infants, children of pre-school age and school age, and young workers, developed in the light of the special needs of urban and rural communities and organized in accordance with the principles set forth in the Medical Care Recommendation, 1944: (б) General health services for maintaining and improving the health of children and young persons, including, for example, services providing adequate food for pregnant and nursing mothers, infants, and school-children, instruction in elementary nutrition and hygiene, physical culture, and holidays in the country, and provision, where necessary, for children requiring such services as home help and day nursery care: (c) Special mental hygiene services, assuring children and young persons expert guidance to prevent or assist in correcting mental ill health and to aid in normal adjustment to family, school, and vocation: Social services—(d) The encouragement of the organization of facilities for leisure-time activities adapted to different age-groups and the encouragement of youth organizations for the purpose of promoting the physical, intellectual, and moral development and public spirit of children and young persons: (e) Measures to protect children and young persons from moral or physical neglect and harmful influences: (/) The services and institutions necessary to ensure the legal protection, proper care, and re-education of children and young persons with special handicaps of adjustment problems, including those who require care away from their own home, with a view to helping them to become socially adjusted and useful members of the community.

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