This is the start of the “yellow coins” operation.
This year, the collection of cents will be largely digitalized, Covid-19 requires.
Brigitte Macron, first lady and president of the Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris-Hôpitaux, which is piloting the operation;
was on RTL Wednesday morning January 20.
She announces that the operation will tackle violence against children.
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This year, we are launching large-scale projects for the screening of abuse and violence against children,
” announced Brigitte Macron, who specifies that these screenings will be carried out within the framework of the hospital.
The health crisis, confinements, successive curfews have accentuated violence against children.
Between March and April, the proportion of situations of physical violence in the hospitalizations of children under 5 increased by 50%, revealed in December a study from the Dijon University Hospital and Inserm.
"
When a child is turbulent, when a baby cries a lot, there can be situations of abuse,"
explains Brigitte Macron
.
We must go to the aid of the children
”.
The first lady announced her plan to create “parenthood homes” in the years to come, “
because being parents can be learned
”, she explains.
Asked about the “#MetooInceste” movement and the hashtag that flourished last weekend on social networks, where victims speak out to tell their stories, Brigitte Macron says she is happy to see the word free.
She says she wants to learn from the measures she has seen in Danish and Canadian schools where teachers and educators are trained to talk about these topics.
“
They need to be able to know what to say to children, how, and from what age,
” she said.
