Sharpened Supervision for Youth Care Organization Enver, which previously fostered at Zorg Feegmeisje Vlaardingen

The quality of foster care at youth assistance organization Enver in Rotterdam is far below standard. That is the conclusion of the Healthcare and Youth Inspectorate (IGJ) published in a Wednesday report. According to the inspection, there is « a risk for the continuity, quality and safety of foster care » at the organization. Due to the poor results, the IGJ Enver states under stricter supervision.

The inspection started the investigation in response to the events of May last year. A 10-year-old girl from a foster family in Vlaardingen was brought out of knowledge at the hospital that month. She had many fractures, brain injury and was malnourished; The OM suspects its foster parents, among other things, of very serious and long -term abuse and attempted manslaughter.

According to the judiciary, the now 12-year-old girl was locked up in a homemade cage, which may have been under electricity. Also would The foster parents have mistreated the girl and a half years old half -sister of the girl and two other children.

Not believed

At the end of January, the IGJ already concluded that Enver as a responsible organization « seriously shortage was giving help to the girl during her stay » in the foster family. The youth care organization would have left the girl to her fate, the regulator concluded. According to the inspection, there have been signs of physical and sexual violence for some time. According to the inspection, the girl told care providers that she was being mistreated, but was not believed in it.

As a result of the January conclusions, the IGJ had « great worries whether the quality of foster care of Enver for other young people was in order, » she writes. That is therefore not the case: all in all, according to the inspection, Enver falls short at eight of the nine criteria.

For example, according to the inspection, the employees of Enver want to provide good foster care, but the workload is too high. The file operation at Enver is also ‘poor’, the screening and matching process of foster parents ‘insufficient insight’ and the cooperation with other organizations in the youth care chain is ‘rough’.

Doubt about improvement plan

According to the inspection, considerations about the safety of foster children are « insufficiently systematically made and recorded », causing safety risks. For example, it would not always be clear whether care providers get to speak to the children without the foster parents, and whether there is a confidential adviser where the child can go.

In one declaration writes in the conclusions of the inspection and to have taken up the necessary improvement measures « with great urgency ». The institution says it has drawn up an improvement plan in February. The inspection writes to be ‘positive’ about the content of that plan, but has doubts because of the size of the shortcomings or the deadlines that Enver persists are ‘feasible and realistic’.

For that reason, and because of ‘the seriousness and the quantity of the shortcomings’, the Inspectorate has decided to put and under stricter supervision. The youth care provider will receive until the end of January 2026 to solve the problems.

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