Council for the Welfare of Children(CWC)

21 October 2021 Dear Ms. Ann Louise Guevara, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated October 5, 2021 at 10:59 A.M. with tracking #CWC-721714695808 under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your request You asked data for school research and reporting purposes, as follows: 1. Data on Children in Conflict with the Law (CICL) – recent available data 2. Reference or readings on previous researches on CICL 3. Global data on CICL Response to your request Your FOI request is approved. The answers to your request are the following: 1. LatestCICLdatabyage,sex,andregionaswellasotherinformationsuch as interventions and situation during COVID-19 Pandemic are accessible online at the CWC website with link address www.cwc.gov.ph. (Sources: Quick Data of Children’s Situation during the Covid-19 Pandemic, January 2020-April 2021, Quick Facts on Children, 2018; and, Quick Facts on Children, 2017). Also, you may access other relevant information on child protection to include Children in Conflict with the Law on the above cited website link (just click resources under menu feature). 2. For specific data such as reference or readings on previous researches and global data on CICL, please send your request directly to the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council (JJWC) addressed to Atty. Tricia Clare A. Oco, Executive Director at [email protected]. Your right to request a review If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response, by writing to the Officer In-charge of CWC with e-mail address [email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result, within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, FOI Decision Maker