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Observatoire National de l’Enfance en Danger

Observatoire National de l’Enfance en Danger. France setting up a new process for collecting data in children in care system : a challenge at local and national level. Maud GORZA, Tania LEJBOWICZ 3 rd Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators

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Observatoire National de l’Enfance en Danger

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  1. Observatoire National de l’Enfance en Danger France setting up a new process for collecting data in children in care system : a challenge at local and national level Maud GORZA, Tania LEJBOWICZ 3rd Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators University of York 26 – 29 July 2011

  2. I / Introduction to the French child protection system II / Lack of data III / Creation of an individual, anonymous and longitudinal observation system IV / Setting-up of the observation system ONED ISCI 2011 2

  3. I / INTRODUCTION TO THE FRENCH CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM (Act of March 5, 2007) ONED ISCI 2011 3

  4. School Childcare Physicians/ Hospitals Police Environment Family County council Disclosure of concern Information Information Children Health public services (under 6) Child welfare services Social services PUBLIC PROSECUTOR JUDGE FOR CHILDREN Assessment Assessment Decision of the Prosecutor Decision of the Judge Decision of the county council Prosecution No action taken Legal protection No action taken With family agreement No action taken Preventive measure (close monitoring) Administrative protection Placement order Child assistance Foster home family Home child assistance Placement agreement Residential care ONED ISCI 2011 4

  5. II / LACK OF DATA ONED ISCI 2011 5

  6. II.1 / The lack of data in children protection in France Impossibility to assess child protection efficiency : a lack pointed out since 1995 Due to the diversity of general councils organization Few researchers working on the topic, producing more qualitative than quantitative researches Social workers are not trained to use indicators in their work. ONED ISCI 2011 6

  7. II.2 / Children protection in France :What we know (more or less) ODAS-2006 : 98,000 children reported as being in danger DRESS-2007 : 266,950 children < 18 y.o. in the care system (18,7‰ of children population < 18 y.o.) and 20,995 young adults (18 to 21 y.o.) in the care system (8,3‰ of young adults population) ONED ISCI 2011 7

  8. II.3 / Children protection in France :What we need More information in order to increase our knowledge about children in care, local practices... To assess child protection at national and local level and efficiency of national and local public policies Trustable data - and not aggregated data - collected by general councils ONED ISCI 2011 8

  9. III / CREATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL ANONYMOUS AND LONGITUDINAL OBSERVATION SYSTEM ONED ISCI 2011 9

  10. III.1 / A new process for collecting data in children in care system Decree of law published March, 1, 2011. An individual, anonymous and longitudinal observation system. ONED ISCI 2011 10

  11. III.2 / Observed population Minors concerned, between 1st january and 31 december of N year, by: A decision of child protection measure (administrative protection or child assistant) after assesment of a disclosure of concern A direct judicial description to the public prosecutor A direct referral of the judge for children ONED ISCI 2011 11

  12. III.3 / Data characteristics Individual : one line = one event concerning a child Anonymous : anonymous ID based on stable informations + SHA 1 algorithm Longitudinal : children trajectories Centralized : in each local authority ONED ISCI 2011 12

  13. III.4 / Variables According to the information already collected by local authorities, or at least the information which could be collected using local software According to international recommendations (ISPCAN/ World Health Organization) ONED ISCI 2011 13

  14. III.4 / Variables Characteristics on (50) : children caregivers households Assessment of the situation (40): Source of reporting Type of danger and maltreatment Alleged perpetrators Family issues related to the child abuse Taken actions / measures (30) ONED ISCI 2011 14

  15. IV / SETTING-UP OF THE OBSERVATION SYSTEM ONED ISCI 2011 15

  16. IV.1 / Difficulties • To centralize information in eachcoutrycouncil • To adjustsomecurrent variables • Need to modify computers systems in generalcouncils • Need to train professionnals to collectdata ONED ISCI 2011 16

  17. IV.2 / Implementation • History of the decree • Difficult because imposed by law • ONED has established • a steering committee • a technical committee • a working group on indicators ONED ISCI 2011 17

  18. IV.3 / Conclusion : Which indicators on children in Child protection can be calculated with this system? Indicators on the population in child protection system: How many children ? Children and families characteristics ? Indicators on the assessment and measures: Which danger/maltreatment/family issues ? Which measures ? Indicators on the children trajectories  ONED ISCI 2011 18

  19. http://oned.gouv.fr/ ONED ISCI 2011 19

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