INTERVIEW
He is expected to turn. Adrien Taquet, Secretary of State for Child Protection, will unveil Monday a plan to combat violence against children. Martine Brousse is particularly impatient: as president of La Voix De l'Enfant, a federation of 80 associations that defend children, she expects additional "efforts" in the fight against violence against minors.
"Tomorrow (Monday, Ed), it should be the announcement of a pact for the child, with announcements on the prevention part, how to spot abuse," says the president of the federation at the microphone Europe 1 Bernard Poirette , Sunday. "It is high time that all children have an evaluation benchmark, 44 departments have been trained and use it, but that's not enough."
119, an under-equipped number?
Martine Brousse is in contradiction with the Secretary of State, who estimates that the current situation, with 180 deaths in 2018 under the beatings and ill-treatment, is not necessarily related to a question of money. "There is a problem of money and a problem of means," she insists. "119 (the call number to report violence against children, Ed) is far from responding to all calls, hence the idea of having at least two listeners and a half, which would 10% more call processing The 119, which receives 400,000 calls each year, costs 3 cents a year for French. "
The plan, announced ahead of the 30th anniversary of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, on November 30, should also bring to the fore a number of representations related to abuse. "Abuse affects all environments, it is more or less well hidden," says Martine Brousse. "Often, environments in precariousness are followed by social services."