Child Guidance Center 6 children in home guidance Unknown location Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Summary December 13 5:30
According to the summary of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, there are 6 children who have not been able to confirm where the children are located at home. Child counseling centers in each region will report missing persons to the police regarding missing children.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is targeted at children in families who have been teaching at home from the child guidance centers nationwide since February, when a girl in the fourth grade of elementary school was killed by abusive treatment by his parents in Noda, Chiba. In addition, emergency checks are performed to confirm location and safety.
As a result, out of the 34,000 children who were subject to the inspection, 6 children who were not located so far were unable to meet.
In this case, there was a case where the family was missing because of foreign nationality, or a case where the child who had entered the facility went out to meet their parents and then lost where they were.
In addition, there was one more child whose location could not be confirmed in an emergency inspection conducted based on the case where a 4-year-old girl died at a child consultation center in Izumi City, Kagoshima Prefecture. For 442 people, new measures were taken to keep them away from their parents, such as entering the facility and providing temporary protection.
Child counseling centers in each region are now reporting missing persons to the police regarding children whose location and safety could not be confirmed.