Closed home accommodation

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The closed institutionalization is a special form of residential care .

Situation in Germany

In Germany, closed home accommodation exists in addition to the forms of residential groups, children's villages and supervised youth living.

Legal requirements

The main difference to the groups mentioned above is that a child or adolescent can only be accommodated in a closed home with the approval of a judge at the request of the custodian (parent, part or guardian). It is a detention associated with detention according to § 1631b BGB.

The background for the closed accommodation is often juvenile delinquency , but also self - and / or other endangering situations, which however do not require psychiatric accommodation. Under special circumstances, frequent escapes and lack of accessibility with other forms of care can also be the cause.

Accommodation costs are generally high, ranging from 300 to 500 euros per person per day.

scope

In the last few years there has been an increase in the number of people staying in closed homes. a. in long waiting times at existing facilities or in newly established facilities. The number of closed placements in Germany in 2013 was 389 children and adolescents. In addition, there are facilities with partially closed accommodation that work within legal gray areas under similar conditions.

The taz reported: “Since 1980 there has been a sharp decline in the number of places, which increased again from 2004 onwards. There are currently around 370 places nationwide, around 110 for girls, 160 for boys and 100 mixed. Federal states that have closed homes are Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg and Bavaria. Bavaria has the largest number with 126 seats. "

They include:

Surname place state Places carrier comment
Caritas girls' home Gauting Gauting Bavaria 57 Caritas Association of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising eV
Niefernburg social educational institution Niefern-Öschelbronn Baden-Württemberg 18th Diaconal work of the Evangelical Church in Baden
St. Franziskusheim Rheinmünster Baden-Württemberg 14th
Dilborn Castle - The youth welfare service Bruggen North Rhine-Westphalia Maria Hilf NRW gGmbH
Rummelsberger Services for Young People gGmbH Rummelsberg Bavaria 12 Rummelsberger Diakonie eV
Martinistift gGmbH Nottuln North Rhine-Westphalia
Youth welfare center St. Anton Riegel at the Kaiserstuhl Baden-Württemberg 8th Non-profit organization of public youth welfare within the meaning of §§ 51ff AO
Mühlkopf youth home Rodalben Rhineland-Palatinate 16 Independent sponsor of youth, social and educational work
Youth facility at Stutensee Castle Stutensee Baden-Württemberg 7th Child and Youth Services
State enterprise education and vocational training Hamburg Hamburg municipal youth welfare organization of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Evang. Child and youth welfare in Würzburg Wurzburg Bavaria 13 Part of the Diakonisches Werk Würzburg e. V.
St. Vincent Children's Center regensburg Bavaria 7th Catholic youth welfare of the Diocese of Regensburg eV
Jugendwerk Birkeneck gGmbH Hallbergmoos Bavaria
Karl-Schreiner House eat North Rhine-Westphalia Diakoniewerk Essen non-profit youth and family aid GmbH
Caritas-Sozialwerk Lohne Rewards Lower Saxony Ecclesiastical mild foundation under private law

criticism

Closed accommodation as a form of socio-educational care is highly controversial and is not used in many federal states. It is neither listed as a special measure in the Social Security Code , nor is it excluded there.

Since the end of 2012, the homes of the sponsoring company Haasenburg in Brandenburg triggered a debate about human rights violations in closed homes. In November 2013 the closure was announced due to the conditions.

In July 2013, ver.di spoke out against closed residential care. The criminologist Christian Pfeiffer , former Minister of Justice of Lower Saxony, spoke out against closed accommodation in July 2013.

The social scientist Timm Kunstreich, spokesman for the action alliance against closed accommodation (AGU) based in Hamburg, suggests pooling experienced employees from various providers in order to find a solution together instead of tearing the young people from their surroundings.

The educational scientist Werner Thole hoped for a turnaround after the closure of the Haasenburg company's locations announced in November 2013.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The horror at the edge of the forest. Die Tageszeitung , June 15, 2013, accessed on July 28, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Debate closed homes. Coercion and protection. the daily newspaper, July 27, 2013, accessed on September 13, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Homes with custodial measures (AK GU14plus). Website of the St. Franziskusheim in Rheinmünster Schwarzach, accessed on May 11, 2017.
  4. ↑ Places in closed accommodation
  5. ↑ Focus on Haasenburg. the daily newspaper , accessed on July 28, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Check youth welfare measures deprived of liberty. Press release from ver.di Berlin-Brandenburg, July 8, 2013.
  7. ^ Criminologist Pfeiffer against closed accommodation. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 12, 2013.
  8. ↑ Action alliance against closed accommodation
  9. ↑ Locking up is not a solution. In: the daily newspaper, April 25, 2013 (online)
  10. ↑ Pedagogue on Haasenburg: "It will be taken tougher". In: the daily newspaper, November 8, 2013.