Evaluation of Handling Policy Street Children Through Empowering the Parents in Semarang City

Problems of the large number of street children in Semarang city became even more serious, so the government of Semarang city issued a local regulation no 5 years 2014 about handling street children, homeless, and beggars in Semarang city. Aside from the regulations, municipal Semarang also empowering the parents of street children by giving independence training. This research in a qualitative study. The subject of the research is a government that represented by Social Department of Semarang, Youth and Sport Department of Semarang, RPSA management, street children and their families. But the turnaround is through interview and observation done with election use of respondents by purposive sampling method. Based on evaluation done to input, process, output, outcomes, it can be concluded that handling policy street children through empowering the parents did not work. It is caused by several factors, one funding limitations so complicate motion from the government to make some facilities that impact on the achievement of the aims to be desired. Recommendations for handling policy street children in Semarang city are: necessary data about the number of street children in Semarang city, the strict sanctions, cooperation with other government agencies, increase synergy between the community, the foundation management and the government in dealing with management problems street children.