An “administrative investigation” will be carried out on the “failures” of the care of a family from Noyelles-sous-Lens, in Pas-de-Calais, known to social services since 2013. The parents have indeed come from to be sent back to justice for the abuse of their ten children, the government announced on Monday.

Arrested at the end of August, after the call of one of the eldest siblings to social services, the forty-year-old couple must be tried in January, suspected of serious educational deficiencies and "violence of a minor aged 15 by ascendant", without ITT (total incapacity for work).

"Tied to high chairs, so they don't move"

The police officers who intervened at the family home had notably "noted that two children aged two and five" were "attached to high chairs, so as not to let them move", and in a "deplorable state of hygiene", according to the wooden floor.

This family, which has ten children from four months to 24 years old, was "known to the services", following a first report in 2013, detailed on Monday Charlotte Caubel, Secretary of State for Children, come to make a point on this file at the prefecture of Pas-de-Calais.

"We will conduct an administrative investigation" with "the inspections of social affairs, justice and national education, alongside the department" to "decipher" why "it gave rise to such a late reaction", he said. she announced.

She also recognized "failures", particularly in terms of "coordination and exchange of information".

Several reports “which have not necessarily been cross-checked”

“There were several cases of support”, “reports”, in particular from national education, but “which were not necessarily cross-checked”, she regretted.

"All the departments supported [them], each in their silo", but "we did not link the problems of the big brother with those of the infant" and "we did not realize the recurrence, and increasing difficulty," she observed.

Visits from social services also took place, but the couple, warned in advance, "may have been putting their house in order with good will or consciously to hide their reality", she noted.

"Poverty, the extremely important situations of violence in this department also justify" the establishment of a "reinforced monitoring committee" involving all the actors, she said.

Such a monitoring committee (experiment permitted by a law passed in February 2022) will be set up in the department to improve "coordination" and "exchange of information" between the various child protection actors, including the prefecture, the department, justice and national education.

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