Believed they would hold

A child who has been repeatedly stored in the emergency care of the Celebration Home has at least twice broken down doors in newly rebuilt rooms in the elm. The doors should be specially strengthened and meet all safety requirements. Nevertheless, the child, which according to mbl.is sources, is rather small and neat by age, has managed to break them down.

Funi Sigurðsson, Director of the Treatment Division of the Children’s and Family Agency, which promotes, confirms in a written response to the inquiry mbl.is that this has occurred. He also asserts that the new rooms meet safety requirements, although there has been a need to respond to events that have arisen.

An aluminum who hosts emergency care promotes fire -consumed fires last October, where a 17 -year -old child died, and improves that part of the treatment home. The reconstruction of two rooms, however, was accelerated to stop using the police station in Flatahraun in Hafnarfjörður for emergency care, as that remedy was not considered inviting children.

Security requirements not always met

The two rooms were put into operation in mid -April and says Funi they have proved quite well.

« There have been incidents where certain things did not meet safety requirements, but it has been equally hard to do so.  » The main advantage of putting the new rooms into operation was that the remedy in Flatahraun could be closed.

Ólöf Ásta Farestveit, CEO of the Children’s and Family Agency, and Ásthildur Lóa Þórsdóttir, former Minister of Education and Children’s Affairs, said in a conversation with mbl.is Earlier this year, the new rooms should meet all safety requirements. In addition, construction of the rooms took longer than planned and the explanation given that high safety requirements would have to be met, as these are very specialized activities.

Want the environment to be warm and child -friendly

Funi says the doors that the child broke is the same as in the safest divisions of the Landspitali. They are specially strengthened. Nevertheless, the child has been able to break them down. However, it has been reacted.

« The options are to put steel doors like it is in Flatahraun but they are not warm and child -friendly. There has been a great deal of effort to ensure safety but also ensuring that the environment is warm and child friendly.

Asked if new doors that are supposed to meet safety requirements should not be kept, even though the clients are doing a lot, Fun answers yes. The doors should withstand the load

« Sure they should, as those who have built doors for the safest divisions of Landspitali were sought and naturally thought they would keep. Everything was not happening and so it was responded to.

Can’t then not conclude that the rooms do not meet the safety requirements that were talked about?

« The rooms meet safety requirements even if there are cases that need to be addressed, » says Funi.

Considers security lacking on Stodlum

It was reported on mbl.is Last week, a 14 -year -old boy who is stored at Stodlar has smuggled another child into the treatment home without anyone being. The child stayed in the home for at least six hours before the matter came up when the boy asked the employee to release the visitor.

The boy’s mother said in a conversation with mbl.is that security would obviously be lacking in Stodlar if this could happen. Then it was not strange that it was easy to smuggle drugs into the treatment center.

Funi then said that the incident was considered very serious and that internal inspection would take place. Obviously, something had failed in the children’s custody. The incident was reported to the Quality and Supervisory Authority of the Welfare Authority, which did not take it further.

The boy was previously stored in Blönduhlíð’s treatment center at Vogur but has recently entered Stodla. He has repeatedly eradicated both treatment homes and emergency care, and search requests for him have reached a high of 30 since mid -February this year. His mother asks if there is a wait for more serious incidents, before action is taken to prevent strokes.

« The inaction, the irresponsibility and the ambiguity are unlikely in this important issue, » said the mother in a conversation with mbl.is last week.