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Note sent by Izquierda Unida + Greens in the city of Murcia:
The assignment, for 40 years, was agreed on 3 September by the Governing Board of the City of Murcia as part of its policy of transfers of public land to private entities.
In this case the beneficiary is the foundation O'Belén, chaired by former mayoral candidate of the Partido Popular Sigüenza Pinto Emilio Rodríguez.
The plot is 5,815 m2 and is located in New Condomina.
His fate would be to build a treatment center for children with behavioral disorders, according to the model are implemented in other regions.
However, the International Foundation O'Belén (FIOB), founded in 1999 as a charitable health care foundation, is one of the main issues and certainly the worst stop of the recent report by the Ombudsman's Child Protection Centers with Disorders of behavior and socially disadvantaged.
In this report, which analyzed 56 centers, stands in a very unique and meaningful situation of those who depend on O'Belén and always in the most negative aspects.
Without going into other ratings on the news these days listed in detail the media, reading this report, endorsed and proven enough to proceed in the institution of Ombudsman, in our view provides sufficient elements to from the council to reverse the transfer of its day, not to adjust the methods of this institution to the social and educational objectives must be pursued with the children.
We also remember that this Foundation collects 17 complaints and has closed one of the centers operated by it precisely because of the serious irregularities.
Therefore, in the next plenary session in February, IU + LV group asked not to make the transfer to an entity that offers no guarantee and is seriously challenged by the care they offer children.
Additional information about facilities O'Belén Foundation extracted from the Report of the Ombudsman.
The center of O'Belén analyzed are Bed Younger (Guadalajara), Our Lady of Peace (Cuenca), Baix Maestrat (Castellón) and Cango (Tenerife), Picon de Jarama (Madrid), and the former Tetouan, closed since July 2007.
The report highlighted the general neglect and deterioration of facilities, lack of cleanliness, lack of recreational areas or sporting or claustrophobic character and style "prison" that prevails in these centers, bars and security doors that can only open the center staff, doors in the bedrooms of children can not be opened from inside and remain closed through the night without intercoms available for emergencies.
In the analysis of so-called containment or isolation rooms of the Young house is said to be "sinister, small size and has no window, the walls being covered with a black rubber smell is very strong and unpleasant, almost unbearable ".
At Our Lady of Peace (Cuenca), the room is too gloomy, is fully lined with black rubber (as a "psychological hug", as reported by the Directorate) and has a tiny window and a surveillance camera. "
In terms of projects and educational methods, the report differentiates centers primarily aimed integrate children in a "normalized" and create a family atmosphere, and those who, by contrast, provide a rigid and closed, in the prevailing rules and restrictions.
O'Belén centers are part of the second group.
It also highlights other shortcomings in the integration in the school system, lack of recreational outlets, food, lack of expertise ...
Especially O'Belén centers takes the cake in the section of arbitrary sanctions and particularly aggressive.
The report reflects irregularities in the Internal Regulations, the use of degrading penalties, habitual use of "educational collejas" abuse of use of isolation.
The report contains a the letter that made them get a group of educators in the Youth House which said that "Many of the educational interventions are not appropriate, coming to constitute emotional abuse and sometimes physical.
Are abused every day of restraint and almost never done properly, usually putting in serious physical danger to the child ... in many cases, containment is used as a way to impose limits, to punish, or to prove an alleged superiority of the teacher ....
Cases of educators-nearly two meters and over a hundred kilos containing less than 14 years for more than an hour three times pinned on the floor, freshly scrubbed with bleach, and the behavior of the child was a risk to themselves it or to those around her.
Following the containment, a doctor reviews the status of minors. "
They also refer to isolation as a strategy used in an equally abusive and may be in places as inadequate as the toilets, where a child can spend hours (the number depends on circumstances not entirely inappropriate conduct that he has done), as for example, have burped ...
children are locked up alone and without being able to perform any activity though .... The rules governing the centers specified that the separations of the group should be controlled by the constant supervision of a teacher, must be accompanied by educational activities and have two hours outdoors, conditions that systematically violates center.
For group separations, several children have self-harmed.
This situation is particularly serious if we consider the sanctions that can reach seven days of each group, according to current regulations in the center.
Needless to say, it does not fulfill the minimum standards for the protection of juveniles deprived of liberty, the United Nations of 1990. "
The negative assessment of the children themselves also highlights O'Belén centers.
with the exception of the center of Tenerife.
Attacks on their privacy, disproportionate or arbitrary punishment and the establishment of an almost prison regime and little education do they value their stay in these centers as a less than positive.
And also these centers are palm in the accumulation of reports of minor injuries due to episodes of violence perpetrated by employees of these centers and several cases of serious self-harm and even a consummate tragedy with the death of a child 13.
Finally the report includes as an epilogue to the words of a child during the interview with him at the center in which it was received, we read: "The more violently they treat me, I become more violent" and "The better treat me and I feel more wanted, more than I do for good behavior. "
Source: Izquierda Unida + Los Verdes en el Ayuntamiento de
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