Opinion | One homeless mother with two children, a hundred employees: it helps nothing

Last year I was busy with a homeless mother with two children. Everywhere we knocked on for help, we were sent away. Last week I studied her municipal and legal files. At some point I thought: what are many people involved. Then I decided to view her files from the front and to write down all employees.

This is the list:

1. JW, Neighborhood Team
2. Z, adm. ETF employee
3. Lawyer first session
4. E, Question Guide
5. P, Neighborhood Teams
6. W, RBZ
7. V, ETF
8. S, ETF
9. T, Neighborhood Team
10. M, Safe Home
11. Joz employee
12. Work coach
13. M, Question Guide
14. A, Question guide
15. J, P&Z / CO
16. M, P&Z / COG
17. M, Central Reception
18. H, P&Z / COG
19. D, P&Z / CO
20. G, WSG
21. Y, District Team Youth
22. J, WMO
23. P, Neighborhood Team
24. M, Neighborhood Team
25. C, Question Guide
26. D, P&ZZ
27. M, Neighborhood Team
28. M, safety net and advice
29. S, P&ZZ
30. D, P&ZZ
31. T, counter specialist
32. Z, P&ZZ
33. Citi
34. Community officer
35. Behavioral scientist
36. Q, FlexWonen
37. Pry
38. J, P&ZZ
39. T, safe home
40. M, WMO
41. L, P&ZZ (Log)
42. B, Neighborhood Team/Prio
43. N, Neighborhood Team
44. I, Neighborhood Team
45. Security adviser
46. Compulsory officer
47. Chief of attendance officer
48. D, P&ZZ
49. I, chain director
50. A, coach
51. B, District Team Youth
52. Ma, Neighborhood Team
53. M, Question Guide
54. Z, Income Consultant
55. B, Youth Teams
56. S, P&ZZ
57. D, co
58. B, co
59. A, Question guide
60. B, Neighborhood Team
61. S, incident counter
62. R, Question Guide
63. S, Neighborhood Team
64. A, safety net and advice
65. C, detention and integration
66. C, mayor
67. E, Neighborhood Team
68. G, back office
69. M, street lawyer
70. GP
71. POH-GGZ
72. Street doctor
73. M, Process management
74. A, P&SZ, Vangnet
75. S, council researcher
76. M, P&ZZ
77. E, P&ZZ
78. E, lawyer
79. You, lawyer
80. W, municipality
81. M, municipality
82. T, municipality
83. M, Ombudsman
84. A, Ombudsman
85. I, VT
86. B, Alderman
87. A, department head
88. S, municipality
89. W, Zorgconsul
90. D, Incidentloket advisor
91. V, Judge
92. C, Civil Affairs
93. Dg, judge
94. D, Judge
95. H, Registrar
96. A, judge
97. Z, clerk
98. Funnel
99. H, Registrar
100. V, Team Manager Objection

In fact, there are more than a hundred, but here I stopped counting.

One hundred employees. A hundred salaries. A hundred people busy, but it doesn’t help anything.

Dozens of civil servants were busy writing reports about her ‘self -reliance’, so that she had to figure it out herself. And when she couldn’t handle it anymore, she was classified as ‘not cooperating’. But Triage is not an answer to structural failing policy.

Fundamental rights are violated: a government should not hide behind all kinds of different auxiliary boxes and authorities.

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