Youth Care Crisis Continues, Inspectors Observe: 'Still Insufficient Insight Into the Safety and Development of Children'
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State Secretaries Judith Tielen (Youth) and Arno Rutte (Justice) promise to address the criticism of youth protection and foster care voiced by two inspectorates on Thursday. More clarity on their actions should be provided soon in a letter to the House of Representatives.
Thousands of vulnerable children under government supervision receive little protection. Help arrives too late, is insufficient, or is non-existent. Foster care, child protection, and juvenile probation services are being neglected by municipalities and the national government because the child protection system has become gridlocked. This is the conclusion of two new, scathing reports by the Health and Youth Care Inspectorate (IGJ) and the Just…
Two inspectorates are once again warning about the state of Dutch child protection and youth care. Cases could arise again that everyone thinks shouldn't have happened. "The fact that this message isn't new makes it all the more poignant."
Children dependent on youth care in the Netherlands are not sufficiently safe. Guidance, protection, and support are provided too late, insufficiently, or not at all. And even in foster care, many things still go wrong. These are the stark conclusions of several reports from the Health and Youth Care Inspectorate, published today. The Inspectorate is sounding the alarm, not for the first time. Because a solution seems further away than ever.
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