"Major dysfunctions" in the care of children in care

After a new documentary from "Zone Interdite" on the care of children in care, Adrien Taquet, the Secretary of State for Child Protection, recognized this Monday in a press release and an interview with La Croix, "major malfunctions" and expressed its "determination to act" against these failures.

A year after a shock investigation into the failing care of child welfare, M6 broadcast this Sunday in "Zone Interdite", a new documentary that drives the point home, showing that much remains to be done for better protect children in care.

An inventory presented within three months

Untrained educators, young people left on their own, pre-adolescent girls who prostitute themselves or run away and who no one is looking for ... Journalist Jean-Charles Doria investigated eight months in several children's homes placed to denounce these serious failings. "These images show children and adolescents cared for in substandard conditions, victims of violence by adults who should take care of them and protect them," the Secretary of State regretted in a press release published on Twitter, expressing at the same time its "emotion" and its "determination to act in the face of these major dysfunctions".

My press release following the #ZoneInterdite report on homes for children in social assistance. pic.twitter.com/hoL2ZV9CzL

He thus intends to ask the prefects to "send him, within three months, an inventory of the way in which these establishments are controlled", he specifies to La Croix . "Each department is supposed to have a reporting procedure: in the event of a problem, its president must notify the prefect," he said. “I also want to make sure that each department has an annual household control plan. In the event of default, the State will develop its own additional controls. They will be led by the prefects and the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs, ”he adds.

Nearly 350,000 children placed in France

"It is especially a question of establishing, at the national level, supervision rates in reception places, standards which will complement the National Child Protection Strategy", details the Secretary of State, observing that "no precise rule exists today in the matter". "It will be done in the second half of 2020," he says.

More than 350,000 young people are the subject of a child protection measure in France, half of whom are placed in homes or with foster families. A government strategy was presented in October. While it includes measures to improve the medical care of children placed in care from 2020, it has been deemed "insufficient" by players in the sector, in particular on training professionals working with children and monitoring structures.

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