Abstract: Through methods of questionnaire, in-depth interviews, etc., the process assessment was conducted on the policy system of children protection, including Municipal Regulations on the Protection of Minors and its relevant resolutions, opinions and measures in S city. It is found that such child protection policies imply hierarchical differences in the organization structuring in the process of proposition and implementation, the imbalance in execution, the gaming amid multiple agents from response to coexistence, as well as the environmental diversity from the core to the periphery. However, these hierarchical differences, imbalance, multiple agents gaming and environmental diversity tend to cause “tension” and “policy obstruction” in policy implementation. In order to reduce the occurrence of “policy obstruction”, it is necessary to improve the completeness and operability of the policy contents, enhance the executive ability of the policy executors, adjust the cognitive deviation of the target groups concerning the policies, and continuously optimize the policy environment.

Key words: child protection policy, Smith’s policy implementation process model, constraints, solutions