Violence against children: the main directions of the fight plan submitted to the Council of Ministers

to provoke “shock” in order to go to a “Real Community Mobilization” Regarding violence against minors. That’s what the Secretary of State for Children, Charlotte Cowbell, hopes to do when she reports to the Cabinet on Wednesday 7 June on the government’s actions to combat this violence and provides key directions for action for 2023-2027. A plan that is currently being implemented.

they say to themselves “especially mobilized” Against sexual abuse of children, it will in this case raise the diagnosis of the Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Abuse of Children (Ciivise), created in March 2021, which estimates 160,000 minor victims every year. “Or the child attacked every three minutes”asserts M.^I Cowbell. Another chilling statistic, from various reports, that the Secretary of State wants to recall: a child is killed every five days in a family setting.

“Faced with these situations, of course, the state exists, its role is to act to improve prevention, identification and sanctions, but our fellow citizens must also mobilize”trust me the world Charlotte Cowbell. In the course of the Council of Ministers, he will recall the three commitments already announced on their specification, which will make up the future government plan: the work carried out on the training of professionals working with children on issues of violence. “Primarily teachers and the world of animation, but also health professionals”In September, the launch of a telephone support platform for these professionals facing violence to provide them with appropriate help and referral to local systems, and still in September the first spot of a national communication campaign. “Shock, Road Safety Road” on sexual violence in the family, including incest. The clear mention of the word “incest” in the campaign, as desired by the pioneering association Face à l’inceste, has not been finally fixed.

Coordination with all stakeholders

In order to abandon this inter-ministerial policy, together with the Secretary of State, the Keeper of the Seals, Eric DuPont-Moretti, must lead to actions at the level of justice. In particular, on March 28, a ministerial circular was sent to the Prosecutor’s Office, which refers to the criminal policy of combating violence against minors, which recalls the existence of a “box of tools” related to judicial treatment of similar cases. In this letter, the minister obliges the magistrates to coordinate with all those involved in childhood, which means, for example, signing agreements with the principals of educational institutions for the early detection of abuse.