Blanes Special Education School Investigated for Allegedly Abusing Children with Autism
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The Department of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya has opened an investigation against the Centro de Educación Especial El Ventijol de Blanes (Girona) for alleged ill-treatment of students with autism. As La Vanguardia advanced, teachers reported that finger twists, verbal and physical assaults, ear jerks and slaps by other teachers and monitors to minors with severe autism occurred, especially in the dining room of the centre, where co…
Atle Gyllensten (KrF) fears the consequences of delaying a special department for children and young people with special educational needs. The relatives share this concern, but Gyllensten will not listen to their solution.
An information file has been opened but, for now, none of the alleged reported assaults suffered by minors with severe autism have been proven.
Complaints allege ear-slaps or slaps on minors, while the Department of Education has already opened a file to the centre
The Department of Education has opened a case against the special education center Ventijol in Blanes (Selva) for alleged mistreatment of students with autism. According to La Vanguardia and confirmed by ACN, some teachers have reported verbal and physical aggression, such as ear pulling or slapping. Education has explained that the first inspection collected contradictory versions of the events and that the reported behaviors have not been prov…
“It seems like we were in the middle age.” This is how the teachers who denounced a year and a half ago the repeated bad practices in the special education center Ventijol de Blanes, the situation experienced daily by children with severe autism. Given the seriousness of the events, the Antifrau office has offered the status of protected alerters to the whistleblowers, while the Department d’Ensenyamente has opened an information file. Continue …
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