2023-11-30 20:21:34
The Ain departmental council announced the suspension, at the beginning of December, “for a period of at least three months”the care of new unaccompanied foreign minors (UMAs), due to lack of “reception and supervision capacities”.
“Direct arrivals, reorientations, contestation of majority before the children’s judge, retention of young adults in the system due to lack of common law accommodation, the system explodes”justifies in a press release dated Wednesday the departmentAfter “a first alert” in September.
“Despite the opening of more than 150 accommodation places in 2023, the department no longer has solutions, neither temporary nor lasting” for new young migrants, he writes, the territory being “faced for months with a massive increase in arrivals” and to the “increasing difficulty” for its partners “to recruit trained educational supervisors” in care structures.
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Since January, 252 direct arrivals have been recorded (compared to 131 for the whole of 2022), and “a blatant acceleration” has taken place since September, the number of arrivals having since almost doubled, according to the community. Reception of direct arrivals will therefore be suspended “from December 1, 2023 and for a period of at least three months”decided the president, Jean Deguerry (Les Républicains), quoted in the press release, who hopes, “however, continue to face the reorientations of the national unit of the Ministry of Justice”.
“Saturation” of the Territoire de Belfort
“The department has allocated a budget of 5.6 million euros to unaccompanied minors in 2022. Expenditures for 2023 will reach 7.7 million euros and projections for the 2024 provisional budget stand at 8.7 millions of euros “added the elected official, who asks “solemnly to the government to give it the means to act” in view “from this humanly untenable situation”.
Indeed, for Mr. Deguerry, it is also “all child protection that is impacted”especially for “think and develop projects for Aindinois families and children”. Contacted by Agence France-Presse, the Ain prefecture did not wish to comment.
Since 2013, as part of their child protection mission, the departments have been responsible for the reception, assessment, accommodation and care of unaccompanied minors. The migratory movement, observed in Italy for example, is causing an influx of unaccompanied minors into France.
Before the summer, several other departments, also faced with an influx of unaccompanied foreign minors, had already sounded the alarm on the situation, which they described as“untenable”. In October, the departmental council of the Territoire de Belfort, which said it was faced with a « saturation » of its child protection systems, had announced that it was going to cap the care of unaccompanied minors.
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