The Rights Of A Homeless Child

The three basic needs of every individual are food, clothing and shelter, also known as a home. Homelessness is a condition when people do not have access to the shelter need. Having a home has several benefits. One of them is that it maintains safe, secure and adequate housing. Homelessness has a negative impact on children and their educational opportunities. Children who lack a home miss the residency requirement, guardianship, have a delay in their school records, lack transportation means and can even lack healthcare benefits such as immunizations.
However, every homeless child has rights. One of the rights of a homeless child is the selection of the school. In a circumstance when the family of a child is forced to relocate to another place, either in a shelter or hotel, LEA states that it is the right of the child to remain in the original school unless the guardians or parents prefer otherwise. Moreover, a homeless child has a right for enrolment in a school. McKinney-Vento states that a homeless child should immediately be enrolled in school even if he cannot produce school records. Also, it is the right of the child to have a schooling dispute resolved. If the homeless child has to be enrolled in another school and he or she is denied enrolment in the new school, a written explanation should be noted down for the decision. Other rights include the right to have transportation, the right to access to comparable services, the right to academic achievement standards, the right to local liaisons, the right to Coordination and the right to segregation.
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