The National Directorate of Youth Protection (DPJ) will have to “quickly” find a way to put an end to the conflict of interest which allowed one of its directors to have responsibility for a child who reported to him professionally. .
” I have […] asked the national director this morning to quickly resolve the situation by next week so that they are no longer in a conflict of interest,” declared the Minister responsible for Social Services Lionel Carmant on Thursday morning.
The minister was reacting to an article in Duty on a regional director of youth protection who acted as a foster family for a five-year-old indigenous child who was under his professional responsibility.
The case surfaced in a judgment rendered on September 17 by Judge Lucie Godin, who called for the intervention of the national director of youth protection, Catherine Lemay.
In her decision, she notably asks Ms.me Lemay to take “the necessary measures, with a view to entrusting […] the functions and powers devolved to the director of youth protection [de la région concernée] to another director of youth protection. »
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