The Ministry of the Interior and Safety is speeding up efforts to find thousands of missing children whose parents never registered them or who are otherwise falling through the cracks.
That will mean bringing forward annual spot checks that are normally conducted in September and October to see if people really live at the address where they are registered.
Parents will first be encouraged to register on the Government24 app, followed by visits from local government officials to any parents who have not registered or whose children have been conspicuously absent from school.
This year’s investigation will focus on parents whose children are missing from school, whose school-age children are not registered for school, or who are vulnerable welfare recipients.
The ministry will set up support teams in municipalities so that undocumented children can be registered and receive emergency welfare services as soon as they are found.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare will announce the outcome of its own search for some 2,000 missing babies this week. A total of 34 have now been found dead across the country.
It is also conducting a survey of young recluses aged 19-39 until next month. Some 5,000 people who have severed all contact with society will be targets of the first-ever nationwide survey.
“Isolated and reclusive youth have been left in the blind spot in welfare policy,” said Choi Jong-gyun at the ministry.
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