Question 5362 — foreigners

Summary

The material and financial situation of the departments linked to the care of unaccompanied minors (UMA) is one of the Government's concerns which it is committed to addressing in partnership with the Assembly of the Departments of France (ADF). Concerning the financial aspect, in accordance with the Prime Minister's commitment to the assembly of French departments of December 21, 2017, exceptional funding from the State is planned in 2018 for 2017 as well as a very significant strengthening of resources for the benefit of the departments in the 2018 finance bill. They increase from €20 million in 2017 to €132 million in 2018, integrating exceptional State funding for the benefit of departmental councils in respect of partial coverage of child welfare expenses (ASE) linked to the number of additional minors present in each department as of December 31, 2017 compared to December 31, 2016. The expert mission, entrusted by the Prime Minister and the President of the ADF, to members of the State inspection bodies, the ADF and executives of the departmental councils, by letter dated October 30, 2017, aims to identify operational solutions to improve the efficiency, coherence and budgetary sustainability of the evaluation phase and shelter. Likewise, proposals must be made “aimed at strengthening the management of evaluation procedures and guaranteeing their reliability”. Its conclusions have been returned to the sponsors and discussions are underway between the government and the ADF to achieve a balanced solution taking into account the increase in the number of young foreigners arriving in France. Indeed, the number of young people declaring themselves minors and having to be assessed by the departmental councils experienced a very sharp increase in 2017, probably exceeding 30,000 (the figures will only be known when the departmental councils have sent their invoices for the last quarter to the Payment Services Agency), including 14,908 minors identified by the MNA cell of the youth judicial protection department. The number of minors supported by the ASE, after evaluation, went from 13,020 on December 31, 2016 to 20,950 on December 31, 2017 according to the data (provisional figures) reported by the departmental councils to the MNA cell. Furthermore, recent publications detail innovative practices which can make it possible to better take care of young people, whether during the pre-assessment period or during their stay at the ASE: "recommendations of good practice professionals" of the national agency for the evaluation and quality of social and medico-social establishments and services (ANESM) (December 2017), "support and welcome unaccompanied minors with regard to their needs" by the national convention of child protection associations (CNAPE) (February 2018), "faced with the emergency, departments are innovating" in the letter from the national decentralized social action observatory (ODAS) (February 2018).

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