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Social assistance for children: “I was able to suffer, like many other children in care, from violence”; confides Lyes Louffok, essayist and child rights activist
This Tuesday, May 14, the National Assembly is launching a commission of inquiry into the dysfunctions of social assistance for children. A major reform of this system is planned. Lyes Louffok, activist and former foster child, talks about his experience of child protection.
(franceinfo)
This Tuesday, May 14, the National Assembly is launching a commission of inquiry into the dysfunctions of social assistance for children. A major reform of this system is planned. Lyes Louffok, activist and former foster child, talks about his experience of child protection.
“Like many other foster children, I was able to suffer violence.” Lyes Louffok, activist and essayist, experienced this situation and studied it. He is the author of the book “In the Hell of Homes”. A former foster child, he spent eighteen years in the child welfare system. His observation is bitter: “Until the age of eighteen, my journey was punctuated by a lot of breakups.” And added: “I have done a lot of foster care, a lot of homes.”
Lyes Louffok denounces: “At the age of eighteen, I was shocked to see that my case was not an isolated one.” “Whether it is violence committed by professionals but also violence committed between children.” Around 300,000 minors are taken into care each year by child protection.
