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After this Wednesday Congress approved the new Child Protection Service that will replace the National Service for Minors, President Sebastián Piñera reviewed the new functions and appointed who will lead said body.
“Our first bill sent to Congress was for the children and adolescents of our country, and the first national agreement that we convened and that bore fruitful fruits, was the national agreement for childhood, which was undoubtedly a good moment for dialogue. and the agreements in our country, “he said.
Along these lines, he explained: “Among the commitments we made, it was to end Sename and replace it with two new services. One, the Youth Social Reintegration Service, and another the Child Protection Service ”.
“Yesterday (Wednesday) Congress approved the project that the Government had sent to Congress in 2018. In fact, I remember that in 2012, during our first government, we sent a bill to replace Sename ”, he declared.
He also detailed the most important functions of the new service, within which is “better protect the life, dignity, quality of life of all children and especially the most vulnerable children and the most vulnerable children.”
“This service will have to better meet many of the children’s needs. Health needs, including mental health; educational needs, so that they can fully return to society; thirdly, it will have to carry out comprehensive protection of children, fully integrating their families (…); fourth, we are going to continue with the closing process of the Cread (Direct Administration Specialized Repair Centers) and replace them with family residences or foster families, so that children can live in a more homelike, more welcoming environment “he argued.
Fifth, the president explained that the financing and resources needed to better protect children and repair the damage caused by the previous system will be increased and perfected.
“We know and recognize that many of these children were under the protection of the State, and that the State and society failed them, and this is an open, painful wound, that we have to make all the necessary efforts to be able to contribute to heal, to heal those wounds “, he indicated.
Finally, the President announced the appointment of María José Castro, currently undersecretary of Early Childhood Education, “as the new director-implementer of this new child protection service.”
Discussion in Congress
After several days of analysis and voting, the Senate Chamber concluded this Wednesday – after more than 6 hours of debate – the vote for the presidential veto on the project created by the National Service for the Protection of Children, so the office Approval of the initiative was able to be referred to the Constitutional Court for its constitutionality control and to see the reservation made by the Executive.
It should be remembered that the vote for this veto was carried out in several sessions of the Chamber. The session this Wednesday was destined to see the four observations that were pendingAmong them, the one that abolished the norm that made the entry into force of this initiative subject to the promulgation of the law of guarantees and comprehensive protection of the rights of children and adolescents.
In this sense, the Chamber had to rule first on the declaration of inadmissibility made by the specialized commission regarding the presidential veto that abolished said provision. Finally, with 15 votes in favor and 24 against the proposal made by the Commission, the veto was declared admissible.
The veto that proposed suppressing the provision that made the entry into force of this law subject to the promulgation of the guarantees law was then put to a vote, which was approved with 22 votes in favor, 6 against and 10 abstentions.
Previously, the Chamber had ruled on three other presidential observations.
The first of them was observation number 10, which was declared inadmissible by the Chamber with 20 votes in favor and 16 against. As explained by the president of the Children’s Commission, Senator Ximena Rincón, the veto sought to eliminate a sentence on the serious infringement of the duty of probity and its respective sanction, while the Executive stated that it was seeking to establish sanctions associated with non-compliance with the commitments acquired.
Then the senators ruled on observation number 11 that had been declared inadmissible by the specialized Commission. With 22 votes in favor, 17 against and 1 abstention, the Chamber upheld the inadmissibility.
Said observation fell on one of the norms of the sixth article of the project that establishes the functions of the new Protection Service, among them generating suitable procedures to obtain the opinion of children and also establishing progressive autonomy.
The Chamber also ruled on observation number 22, which was declared inadmissible by the specialized commission.
The veto fell on a rule that states that it is inability to be an accredited collaborator of the new Service to have people, administrators or workers who have received administrative, criminal or civil sanctions, for acts constituting violence, of any kind, that have affected the life or physical or mental integrity of the children and adolescents under their care, or on which there is current research. The Executive, meanwhile, proposed to also incorporate those who are subject to some precautionary measure.
In this point, The declaration of inadmissibility made by the Commission was voted first and after three consecutive ties were produced, the proposal of the specialized instance was considered rejected, for which the Executive’s proposal had to be voted, which was finally approved with 23 votes to favor, 6 against and 9 abstentions.
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