Case files of children in care left in abandoned building
Summary
Hundreds
of files containing personal information about children in care have
been found strewn by vandals inside an abandoned children’s home in
LimburgTaken by tribunal
Hundreds of case files
containing personal information on children who were placed in the
former children’s home Den Heuvel in Leopoldsburg in Limburg have been
found abandoned, strewn by vandals inside the dining room of the
establishment, which is now abandoned.
“This
cannot be permitted,” said a spokesperson for the youth tribunal, which
was responsible for committing children to the centre. The children
attended a boarding school attached to Den Heuvel and lodged in the
centre at weekends. “We will be informing the prosecutor,” he said.
Among the papers are sensitive reports, including names and photographs of children. On other pages are personal and private information about children and communications between staff at the centre and at the schools attached to the service.
“These are very old working documents containing confidential information,” said Sarina Simenon, of the community education network GO. “Any files that are important today were taken when the centre moved to Lommel, and recent case files have been archived. The files in question are older, and it was still to be decided whether they should be archived as well, or else professionally destroyed.”
The fate of the building is to be decided in September, she said. “We wanted to make the building inaccessible, but that didn’t work out, and we’ve had a visit from vandals.
The important thing now is that the documents have been taken by the tribunal, and therefore they’re safe and no longer likely to fall into the wrong hands.”
Photo courtesy De Standaard
http://www.flanderstoday.eu/current-affairs/case-files-children-care-left-abandoned-building-0
Among the papers are sensitive reports, including names and photographs of children. On other pages are personal and private information about children and communications between staff at the centre and at the schools attached to the service.
“These are very old working documents containing confidential information,” said Sarina Simenon, of the community education network GO. “Any files that are important today were taken when the centre moved to Lommel, and recent case files have been archived. The files in question are older, and it was still to be decided whether they should be archived as well, or else professionally destroyed.”
The fate of the building is to be decided in September, she said. “We wanted to make the building inaccessible, but that didn’t work out, and we’ve had a visit from vandals.
The important thing now is that the documents have been taken by the tribunal, and therefore they’re safe and no longer likely to fall into the wrong hands.”
Photo courtesy De Standaard
http://www.flanderstoday.eu/current-affairs/case-files-children-care-left-abandoned-building-0
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