Violence against children: Élisabeth Borne presents the government’s new plan

2023-11-20 09:31:31

On the occasion of International Children’s Rights Day, the Prime Minister is presenting this Monday the government’s new plan to combat violence against children for the period 2023-2027. Élisabeth Borne will chair in the afternoon in Matignon the third Interministerial Committee for Children (CIE), a body launched in November 2022 to provide itself with a “transversal vision of childhood policy”, which had been met again in June.

In the presence of eleven members of the government, including the Secretary of State for Children Charlotte Caubel, the CIE will have two priority themes, indicates Matignon: the 2023-2027 plan against violence, which succeeds the plan launched in 2020, and the strengthening State action in favor of protected and vulnerable children.

In the morning, Élisabeth Borne will go with Charlotte Caubel and with Gérald Darmanin to Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) to visit the Central Office for Minors (Ofmin), responsible for coordinating the operational activity of the police and gendarmerie. The Prime Minister will also visit, in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine), the victim assistance association L’Enfant Bleu.

The plan announced this Monday could review the objective of the number of Ofmin investigators, which currently has 35, and the resources allocated to the prevention of this violence, in particular the call and listening number platforms. The government should also create ten positions of departmental delegates “dedicated to the management of child protection”, recruited on an experimental basis to be the interlocutors of the departmental councils, according to Matignon.

A financial “help” for adults

Second theme addressed on Monday: State action in favor of protected and vulnerable children. On November 10, during the Assises des Départements de France, Élisabeth Borne called for a “general mobilization for protected childhood”, a burning issue for these communities, and in their relations with the State.

Nearly 370,000 children are the subject of a protection measure under child social assistance (ASE), whose services have, since the major decentralization laws of 1982 and 1983, come under the authority and responsibility of the president of the departmental council. The Prime Minister had mentioned “new commitments” to be made during the CIE, “in particular in terms of health or education” for these children.

Furthermore, Élisabeth Borne should announce a new “young adult autonomy pack” for young people leaving the ASE at 18, including in particular a now automatic “financial boost” of 1,500 euros paid to the majority.

The organization of this interministerial committee comes after the publication of a long-awaited report from the Ciivise, a commission notably responsible for combating incest. In an interview at JDDCharlotte Caubel assured that the Commission should continue to exist with “a new roadmap”, while the associations fear for the sustainability of this organization.