Cabinet wants tighter monitoring of foster parents after severe Vlaardingen abuse case

On Wednesday, the House debated with four state secretaries about the harrowing case of a now 12-year-old foster girl, who was abandoned to her fate by aid agencies.

State Secretaries Teun Struycken (Legal Protection) and Vincent Karremans (Youth) expressed their regrets in the Lower House to the severely abused girl from Vlaardingen. Her foster parents abused the 10-year-old child so severely that she barely survived. "The system that should have protected them has failed," Karremans said during the debate. "I am terribly sorry, I think it is very bad." He also expressed regret to the two Syrian boys who we…

While Isabelle Santiago, MP (PS) of Val-de-Marne, has just completed the hearings of the parliamentary committee of inquiry "on the shortcomings of child protection policies", of which she is rapporteur, "La Gazette" invited her to speak on the issue of the supervision of institutions, alongside Stéphane Durin, partner at KPMG, in charge of public strategies and policies and specialist in child protection.

Cabinet wants tighter monitoring of foster parents after severe Vlaardingen abuse case

The State Secretary for Youth and Prevention, Vincent Karremans, has said that he wants screening of foster parents to be more regular and stricter, he stated in a debate in the Tweede Kamer about the seriously abused foster girl in Vlaardingen. Karremans and fellow state secretary Teun Struycken spoke to the girl’s biological mother and seemed visibly shaken when discussing the matter in the lower house of Dutch parliament.