Dutch Safety Board: Fix Unsafe Living Conditions for Children in Emergency Shelters
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Dutch Safety Board: Fix unsafe living conditions for children in emergency shelters
The Dutch Safety Board (OVV) has issued an “urgent recommendation” to the minister of asylum and migration to improve conditions for children in emergency asylum reception centers within six months. Those children are systematically "exposed to unsafe living conditions that pose serious risks to their development,” the board wrote in its report “Children in Distress,” published Monday. About 6,900 out of roughly 17,000 asylum-seeking children in…
Children in emergency asylum shelters are structurally in unsafe living conditions, resulting in serious risks to their development. That...
Children sometimes stay in emergency shelters for years and face many forms of insecurity caused by the lack of structural policy. "Reduce dependency on emergency shelter locations and invest in a sustainable care system," says the Safety Board.
THE HAGUE (ANP) - The Dutch Safety Board (OVV) is making an "urgent recommendation" to the Minister of Asylum and Migration to improve the situation of children in emergency asylum shelters within six months. They are currently systematically "exposed to unsafe living conditions that pose serious risks"...
In a highly critical report, the Dutch Safety Board (OVV) calls on the Minister, municipalities, and all professionals working in asylum reception to finally and genuinely address the unsafe living situation of children in emergency shelters.
Minister Van den Brink of Asylum must improve the situation of children in emergency asylum shelters within six months. That is the main "urgent" recommendation of the Dutch Safety Board, which has conducted an investigation into the living conditions of children there for over two years. According to the board, the current practice, in which 7,000 children are systematically exposed to unsafe situations that threaten their development, amounts …
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