Question 12401 — fundamental rights

Summary

Ms. Anne-Cécile Violland questions the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities on the opinion of the General Controller of places of deprivation of liberty relating to the restraint and isolation of minors in psychiatry, published in the Official Journal on December 4, 2025, and on the situation of more than 50,000 minors hospitalized each year in psychiatry, often in free care but subject to deprivation measures. freedom. In this opinion, the CGLPL describes particularly serious practices: tens of thousands of children and adolescents hospitalized each year in "free care" are in reality subjected to measures depriving of liberty (isolation, restraint, confinement, ban on visits, ban on going out, heavy psychiatric treatments) without the guarantees of judicial control recognized for adults in care without consent. He underlines that minors hospitalized at the request of their parents or child welfare services, officially in independent care, are placed in isolation or subjected to restraint outside the legal framework which reserves these measures for hospitalizations without consent and thus escape the effective control of the judge. The CGLPL explicitly calls on the Government to immediately reform the status of minors hospitalized in psychiatry, recalling that “minors cannot benefit from fewer rights than adult patients” and that “all decisions concerning them must be brought to the attention and control of the judge”. Also, it asks what adaptation measures it plans to take to bring the law and practices into compliance with the recommendations of the CGLPL, particularly in terms of isolation, restraint, information of minors, role of holders of parental authority and control of the judge.

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