The health of protected children finally becomes a priority

The observation is well known: the health of children in the care of social assistance for children (ASE) is poorer than that of children in general, yet their health care is deficient, incomplete, or parents do, either because of the “choppy” paths within the ASE. Faced with this observation, the law of March 14, 2016 on the protection of the child made it compulsory to carry out a health check-up at the start of the protection measure, then once a year.

However, according to the State Secretariat for Child Protection, only a third of children benefit from a health check-up upon admission to ASE. It is to remedy this deficiency and, ultimately, to enforce the law, that an experiment was launched in the summer of 2019 by Loire-Atlantique …