“Guaranteeing dignified housing for children entrusted to child protection is making a political choice” | EUROtoday

SThere is certainly an object of transpartisan consensus in France, it’s the necessity to restore our baby safety mannequin, which is at the moment operating out of steam. This is evidenced by the unanimous adoption final April of the report of the parliamentary fee of inquiry led by the MP [socialistes et apparentés, Val-de-Marne] Isabelle Santiago, who denounced “an unthought of public policies”.

Since then, the federal government has revealed the outlines of a invoice supposed to “redesigning the child protection model” and anticipated for the primary half of 2026. The intention is important. It have to be accompanied by a budgetary envelope commensurate with the said ambitions, in any other case we’ll stay caught with announcement results. It should even be accompanied by actual and collective mobilization, in any respect ranges of accountability and in any respect phases of public motion. Because the disaster going through baby safety is deep and has a number of sources.

Firstly, there’s the intense scarcity of pros ensuing from the unprecedented disaster of attractiveness which is hitting the social work sector. Without an unlimited plan to revalorize these professions, there can be no revival of kid safety. Senator Annie Le Houérou tabled a invoice alongside these traces, however her textual content, though adopted at first of the 12 months, was emptied of its substance. It can be as much as the National Assembly to revive its preliminary scope.

Child safety can be the collateral sufferer of the structural weaknesses of different public insurance policies. The deficiencies of psychiatry and psychological well being, the insufficiency of responses tailored to incapacity, the persistent difficulties of colleges in stopping and detecting, the slowness of juvenile justice: so many failures of the big nationwide public companies of their missions which have direct repercussions on the kid welfare companies (ASE).

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