2024-09-25 15:48:01
“It’s screaming everywhere. » More than a thousand people took to the streets on Wednesday in Paris to sound the alarm over the “unfair” state of the child protection sector and demand a “strong response” from the new government. “Sacrificed child, system at risk”, “for the children in care, we will be there”, “teachers at a discount, children at risk”, chanted the demonstrators, who it leaves around 1:30 pm in the rain from the Esplanade des Incorrect to join the Pantheon.
“All the lights are red, we are facing a crisis of truly unprecedented proportions,” summarized Pierre-Alain Sarthou, director general of the National Conference of Child Protection Actors (Cnape), which brings together “an association of 400,000” – in a reference to the estimate of the number of children currently in need of protection in France. “More than 3,000 children live on the street, 3,350 are still waiting for a move, 8,000 children who were previously placed are homeless”, in a statement of “overcrowded justice”, groups “wealthy are tired” and “social workers in a hurry,” he said. lists.
Separation of support
On the ground, “the situation is catastrophic”, adds Damien Scano, director of the child protection group in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, which is involved in the process. He explained: “We can’t do it anymore, things are falling apart everywhere, and he talks about other things “a huge increase in the number of children who need protection and parents who need help .” “stability of financial resources”. “It’s not possible anymore, we’re almost out of support,” he added.
Due to the lack of places available, more and more children are forced to stay with their families, despite legal decisions that consider them to be in danger at home. Christophe Olinet, a professor in Charente-Maritime said: “As the justice system is obstructed, it obstructs the whole process. “And when it is not justice that is “forced”, it is on another level that it is blocked. »
“I’ve been doing this job for 30 years, we don’t even have bones anymore, we’re over it. Not enough facilities, not enough referees, not enough coaches, not enough facilities, not enough maintenance… Nothing! “, he believes. “It’s not even the time of the bomb anymore, the bomb has exploded. »
Professionals are also concerned about the fate of young people who, once they leave the Child Care system (ASE), find themselves without support and slide into a “circle of exclusion”. Long invisible, the plight of some 377,000 children under the protection measure under ASE has returned to the forefront in recent years with the deaths of many children in care.
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