A Study on the Potential of Legal System in Safeguarding the Right to Education of Street Children in Sri Lanka

uneducated street children are a challenge to the national growth of a country. Education can be consider as a mechanism which can increase the national growth. Although there is free education in srilanka, there are a large number of children like street children , who lose their education due to other expenses. . This study aims to find out whether sri Lankan legal system is potential to protect the right to education of street children. The research problem is whether the existing legal system is potential to protect the right to education of street children. The objectives of this study are, to identify the existing legal framework for right to education of street children in srilanka,, to identify the problem of legal framework in related to right to education and to propose the necessary amendments to existing legal framework to fill the gaps. Combination of black letter methodology and comparative analysis with indian legal framework is also taken as a research methodology. For the qualitative analysis primary data are1978 srilanka constitution, penal code no 2 of 1883, children and young person’s ordinance no 48 0f 1939, the adoption of children ordinance No. 24 of 1941, Education ordinance No. 31 of 1939, prevention of domestic violence Act No. 34 of 2005, and international covenant on civil and political rights. and for secondary data including web articles and journal articles.