The Government is committed to better care for victims of violence and increased support for health professionals caring for them.

2023-11-22 09:53:01

The week of November 20, on the occasion of International Children’s Rights Day on November 20 and the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25, marks a highlight in the year to reaffirm the Government’s action to protect the most vulnerable. Supporting victims of violence is a collective responsibility. For more than 6 years, the Government has been fully committed to taking strong measures, both on the prevention, detection and reporting of violence against women and children and on the deployment of care pathways adapted to the management of psycho trauma of these victims.

Violence, whether committed against women or against children, particularly within a family context, has serious health consequences, which require appropriate, multi-professional care.

On the occasion of Third Interministerial Committee for Children held in Matignon, on November 20, the Prime Minister presented with Charlotte Caubel, Secretary of State for Children, the Government’s new strategy to combat all forms of violence against children. With this new plan, the Government is further stepping up its efforts to support and care for child victims of violence or abuse.

• Prevention will be strengthenedin particular with the inclusion of the 2019 law on the prohibition of ordinary educational violence in the health record and the pregnancy record.

• Identification of victims will be improved :

1. While working at the securing doctors when reporting that is, by protecting them from unjustified disciplinary procedures.
2. In strengthening training professionals in contact with children.

• The care pathway for victims will be consolidated. Indeed, reparation for victims of sexual violence or acts of incest requires a course of care adapted to the trauma suffered by this public..

1. Additional Pediatric Reception Units for Children in Danger (UAPED) will be created for better care of child victims. The objective is one UAPED per jurisdiction (i.e. 164).
2. THE regional psychotrauma centers (CRP) will be strengthenedparticularly on their training and network management missions, in order to position them as a unifying player for those involved in the management of psychotrauma in a territory.

The fight against violence against women is also a government priority, with strong action to prevent violence and better manage its health consequences, both physical and psychological.

Ministers Agnès Firmin Le Bodo and Bérangère Couillard gathered, this Tuesday, November 21, the 3^e committee for monitoring health measures for the care of women victims of violence, around health professionals, women’s support associations and institutional actors. This committee made it possible to take stock of the deployment of structures for caring for women victims of violence, present the main areas for overhauling the specifications of these systems which will be published at the end of the year and highlight the health conventions – security – justice which allow the filing of complaints within health establishments and the collection of evidence without complaint.

With €2.5M delegated in 2023, 18 new systems have been identified since the last monitoring committee in June, to reach today 74 structures in the territory. We will continue our commitment to achieve the objective set by the Prime Minister of a structure by department by 2025.

The Government thus reiterates its strong commitment to the fight against violence against women, in order to provide optimal care and better support for victims.

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Contacts presse :

Ministry of Equality between Women and Men, Diversity and Equal Opportunities

Office of Mrs. Bérangère Couillard

Tel: [phone]

Mel : [email protected]

Ministry of Territorial Organization and Health Professions

Office of Mrs. Agnès Firmin Le Bodo

Tel: [phone]

Mel : [email protected]

State Secretariat to the Prime Minister in charge of Children

Office of Mrs. Charlotte Caubel

Tel: [phone]

Mel : [email protected]

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