The Children Act Cap 141 in Kenya

(1) Any person who, having parental responsibility, custody, charge or care of any child, and who— (a) wilfully assaults, ill-treats, abandons, or exposes, in any manner likely to cause the child unnecessary suffering or injury to health, including injury or loss of sight, hearing, limb or organ of...

(1) In this section "care order" means an order entrusting the care, control and custody of the child to a person other than the parent, guardian or custodian of the child, or an institution appointed by the Court. (2) A Court may make a care order in respect of a child only if it is satisfied...

(1) In determining the terms of a care order, the Court may— (a) consider any prior arrangements made by the Secretary for allowing any person access to the child during the period within which the care order remains in force; (b) grant leave to any person to make submissions in the proceedings to...

(1) A Court may, either of its own motion or on application by any person, make an interim care order on any of the grounds specified in section 153 (2). (2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), a Court may make an interim care order where— (a) the substantive application for a...

(1) A care order or interim order may be discharged— (a) by the making of an adoption order in respect of the child; (b) in any case where the care order was not made in respect of the child by reason of the child having been found guilty of a criminal offence under Part XV; or (c) by the making...

(1) Where the Court makes a care order directing that a child be committed to a rehabilitation school on being found guilty of an offence, the committal order shall specify the grounds on which the order is made and shall— (a) contain a declaration as to the age and religion of the...

The Court making a care order under this Part in relation to a child committed to a rehabilitation school shall direct that the order be delivered to the manager of the rehabilitation school together with a record in the prescribed form of such information regarding the child as the Court may...

(1) Where a person authorised to escort a child to a rehabilitation school is unable to find or obtain custody of the child, the Court may, if satisfied by information on oath that a person named in the information is in a position to produce the child, issue a summon requiring the specified person...

Where a child has been placed under care in a rehabilitation school, any person who harbours or conceals the child after the time fixed for the child to enter the rehabilitation school, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not...

(1) A child who escapes from a fit person, charitable children’s institution to whose care the child has been entrusted under this Act, or from any person or institution with whom the child has been placed by a charitable children’s institution, or under any regulations made under this Act, may be...

(1) Where a child escapes from any person or institution with whom or withwhich the child has been placed by a charitable children’s institution or county public entity, the manager, person in charge of the institution or other authorised officer of such institution or authority...

(1) Any child who escapes from a children’s remand home or while being escorted thereto or therefrom, may be apprehended without warrant and dealt with in accordance with section 157. (2) Any child who has been committed to a rehabilitation school and who— (a) escapes from such school or from any...

Any person who willfully and knowingly— (a) aids or induces a child— (i) to run away from a fit person, a charitable children’s institution, children remand home or a rehabilitation institution or authorised person to whose care the child has been committed, or from any person or institution with...

(1) If a Children’s Court is satisfied by information on oath that there arereasonable grounds for believing that a child has escaped or done any of the things specified in section 163, and that some other person named in the information is in a position to produce the child, the Court may issue...

(1) Where a person appears before any Court for the purpose of givingevidence, and it appears to the Court that the accused, the victim or complainant to whom the proceeding relates is under eighteen years of age, the Court shall inquire as to the age of the accused, victim or complainant, and shall...

Where a Court makes an order placing a child under the care of a rehabilitation school, the court shall not make a contribution order requiring a parent or guardian of the child to contribute any sums of money towards the maintenance of the child.

(1) The Cabinet Secretary may enter into an agreement with the government of any other country or territory on such terms and conditions as the Cabinet Secretary may think fit, under which a child who has been ordered by a Court under the provisions of this Act to be sent to a rehabilitation school...

The provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code with respect to bonds for good behaviour, including the provisions as to their enforcement, shall apply to bonds entered into under this Part.

(1) The overriding objectives of foster care placement are— (a) to protect and nurture children in need of care and protection by providing a safe, healthy environment with wholesome support; (b) to promote long term parental care, with the goal of family reunification in the first...

(1) In this Part, "foster care" includes— (a) placement of a child in foster care on short term basis for a period not exceeding three years— (i) in situations of emergency; (ii) where the child is found abandoned; or (iii) where the child is in need of care and protection; or (b) placement of a...

(1) For the purposes of this Part, a child may be placed under foster care either on the direct intervention of the Secretary or pursuant to an order of the Court, and such placement shall, in the first instance, be home based. (2) Where a child has, by virtue of a care order, been committed to a...

(1) Any person wishing to foster a child shall make an application to the Secretary in the prescribed form. (2) On receipt of the application referred to in subsection (1), the Secretary shall conduct due diligence, including ascertaining the criminal liability of the prospective foster parent, and...

(1) Any of the following persons may apply to be appointed a foster parent or foster parents— (a) spouses of a marriage where one or both the spouses are between twenty-five and sixty-five years of age; (b) a single woman of between twenty-five and sixty-five years of age; or (c) a single man of...

The Secretary shall not authorize foster care placement of a child if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the application has not been done following the procedure set out in rules made under this Act.

Not more than four children may be placed in foster care with a single person or two persons in the same household, except where— (a) the children are siblings or blood relatives; or (b) the Secretary is of the view that, in the circumstances of any particular case, such placement is in the best...

(1) A person shall not, for the purposes of fostering a child, retain in his care andcustody a child whose parent, custodian or guardian cannot be readily identified, without first notifying the Secretary. (2) Every registered Charitable Children Institution undertaking foster careplacement in...

(1) The Secretary may, on the application of a foster parent or the parentor guardian of a child, direct that an agreement be made between the foster parent and the parent or guardian of a child placed in foster care stipulating the maintenance payable by such parent or guardian for the child’s...

(1) Any foster care placement made under this Part may be terminated on the written direction of the Secretary if the termination is, in the Secretary’s opinion, in the best interest of the child. (2) Before directing the termination of any foster care placement of a child, the Secretary shall take...

A person who, without reasonable cause, contravenes any of the provisions of this Part commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both.

The Cabinet Secretary shall make regulations for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Part.