Open letter against Bill N-VA MPs about “speaking obligation”
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More than 300 associations active in youth assistance and youth care and more than 2,800 citizens sides in an open letter against a bill submitted by various N-VA MPs and that wants to impose a reporting obligation on care providers and care providers for a series of crimes on children and young people. La Libre Belgique reports this on Monday.
Source: Belga
Today at 05:31
Although the purpose of the bill – protecting children and young people – is legitimate, the drug is in danger of having a counterproductive effect. Many situations are unclear on the site, the signatories explain.
Vulnerable young people feel themselves when something wrong or abnormal happens, but are so entangled in relational and emotional problems that they use other channels to express their difficulties. The confidential setting means that they can build a relationship of trust and be open about the dangers with which they are confronted. According to the care providers and care providers, that unveiling without their permission would yield « an additional traumatizing break » that would harm the relationship of trust, it sounds.
« If the possibility of revealing serious facts becomes an obligation, there is a risk that victims, witnesses or perpetrators of crimes will remain silent or will no longer turn to services that are obliged to report, » the signatories believe.
