The Establishment of Shelter Care Services: An Overview of  Shelter Care in Malaysia

Authors

Siti Hajar Abdul Rauf1 , Noorilham Aziz2 , Nur Farhana Idris2 , Farhah Najiha Jailani2 , Ahmad Bisyri Husin Musawi Maliki3 , Azlini Chik4

Shelter Care, institution, children, entry status, care services, accommodation.

All of the Shelter Care institution had strict rules and regulations, especially about the status of registration.

Unregistered Shelter Care with government or private sector will bring problems to the institution especially

on financial contributions and safety regulation. Objectives: In view of this fact, study of Shelter Care

services has been conducted to identify the most dominant factors that applied by institution. Methods:

This study involved 39 institutions and the parameters of study are a registration, entry status, care services,

nutrition and accommodation. Results: The findings indicated that the Shelter Care involved was fulfilling

the standard of Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS).

The data was analysed by factor analysis using XL STAT software. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and

Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were computed to identify the most dominant factors whereas reducing

the initial five parameters with recommended >0.70 of factor loading. Conclusion: From this study, the

result show that all institution is according to the set of procedures that needed.

Siti Hajar Abdul Rauf1 , Noorilham Aziz2 , Nur Farhana Idris2 , Farhah Najiha Jailani2 , Ahmad Bisyri Husin Musawi Maliki3 , Azlini Chik4

1 Senior lecturer, 2Undergraduate student, 3Postgraduate Student, 4Lecturer, Department of Social Work,

Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, Malaysia