Taking Into Care - In The Child's Best Interest? The German Youth Welfare Office is under criticism from the European Parliament
René Gordon Holzheimer,
Detlef Ballhorn
Abstract:Introduction: The number of children taken into care by German youth welfare offices has been increasing for years as a result of changes in the law according to publicly known endangerments to child welfare. Due to an increase in petitions from non-German parents to the European Parliament's Petitions Committee against administrative acts that they felt to be arbitrary (e.g. taking into care), the European Parliament repeatedly (2007, 2018, 2022, 2023) dealt with the processes in the German Youth Welfare Offi… Show more
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