After reports last November on the reception conditions of children at the Picard educational home in Amiens, he is again pointed out, for acts of alleged mistreatment. It is in this context that the Departmental Council of the Somme launched “the information and evaluation mission dedicated to the child protection service”, Thursday, January 23.
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Claimed last November by the opposition group “the common sum” following reports on the unhealthy reception conditions suffered by the children of the Picard educational home managed by ADSEA 80, the departmental council launched Thursday 23 January, the information and evaluation mission on child protection in the Somme.
A mission “which aims to analyze and assess the functioning of child protection services as well as partner structures that work daily to support children and families in the department“, announces the departmental council.
The mission of the Departmental Council has been opening up that for a few days, facts of alleged mistreatment against minors of the Picard educational home have been mentioned in the press. According to an employee of the supervision, met by our team, one of his colleagues would have taken agitated children in the forest at night to calm them. “”You have so much violence, that you tell yourself that it will do good, it will blow … I was able to attend only once“, he testifies, anonymously.
Serious accusations and actions that have reproduced several times, according to other testimonies. “”He took Ludovic and Nicolas, put them in the car (…) He told them, fires extinct in the dark, there are guys who will come, they are real mafia, you will leave with them. .. they started to cry“, testifies another person.
-A complaint was filed by an ex-employee, dismissed last November, and an investigation was opened.
Facts, if they are proven, judged “unacceptable“By the Departmental Council of the Somme and which justify the opening of this mission of information and evaluation of the child protection service in the department, of which this household is a part.
Composed of seven members, and chaired by Christelle Winter, president of the department, the mission must last four months and must make it possible to establish “a specific inventory, to identify the axes for improving child protection and social assistance services“Indicates the council.
For Frédéric Fauvet, elected “La Somme en common” and member of this departmental mission, “It is a whole system that is to question today, that of child protection“. He notably points to the problem of children's placement: some families welcome up to eight children at the same time in the sum. The national average is between two and three children.
“Today we have a certain number of information, testimonies, we have to sort it out, we have to establish a certain number of priorities, that we understand why all that does not work well , and perhaps that we invest more strongly including in the heritage that welcomes these children in the department“.
Concrete recommendations will have to be made within six months, for “strengthen the efficiency and quality of existing devices“For the care of children entrusted to ASE.
