Question 12365 — children

Summary

Mrs Sabine Rubin alerts the Prime Minister about the future of the national telephone reception service for children in danger. The State has already imposed on the Enfance en Danger public interest group a budget reduction of 7% in 2018. Given that the GIPED is financed equally between the State and the departments, the reduction in the budget imposed by the State necessarily leads to the same reduction on the part of the departments. These are therefore 321,242 euros of budget reduction that GIPED is trying to compensate for other than through cuts in personnel costs in 2018 and 2019. However, the MP notes that 119 still receives 1,000 calls per day and that the service experiences traffic jams frequently - even at night - which forces children to wait, in sometimes very urgent situations. Sometimes call people on the verge of suicide or children who are living scenes of violence at the very moment of the call. Among all the calls that were reported to the departmental councils' units for collecting worrying information, out of 27,000 children helped, 6 out of 10 situations were not known to social services. What's more, it is against the advice of the departments, which half finance GIPED, that the State lowered its subsidies by forcing them to lower theirs. Until now, 119-Allô Enfance en danger operated with its reserve funds, which allowed it to only make cuts in its operating costs. Now, cuts in the payroll will prove necessary if the State does not increase the subsidies granted to GIPED, which will inevitably lead to a clear drop in the efficiency of a service that is nevertheless essential and already under pressure. There Child protection therefore appears to be in no way the priority of the Government, which even abolished the ministry in charge of children. In these circumstances, she would like to know whether the Government intends to increase the budget of the Enfance en danger public interest group to the tune of the 2016 and 2017 budgets, for the protection and assistance of children in 2019 and, beyond the GIPED, whether it intends to implement measures specific to helping children.

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