The Child Welfare League Foundation has been temporarily barred from providing adoption and foster services until an appropriate plan is in place to improve staffing issues, Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare Lee Li-feng (李麗芬) said on Wednesday.
The foundation has been at the center of a controversy involving the death of a one-year-old child under its care.
The Taipei City Government referred the case to the foundation, which temporarily placed the boy in the home of a contracted caregiver surnamed Liu (劉) while it tried to find him an adoptive family.
Photo: Tien Yu-hua, Taipei Times
The boy was allegedly abused to death by Liu in December last year.
There are 468 children in Taiwan awaiting adoption through eight legal agencies, 200 of whom are younger than three years old, Lee told a news conference in Taipei.
The foundation has been found in need of an internal staffing review, and would be barred from providing adoption services until it is complete, she said.
After a review meeting on Friday and the foundation submits a report with a plan for improvement, the ministry would reassess whether it may resume, she added.
Ongoing adoptions may continue under supervision by local governments, with more visitations by officials and foundation staff, she said.
“The local government gave up too early,” Lee said, adding that the health ministry believes that the adoption followup process should not be left solely under the purview of civic groups.
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