Lifebuoy for youth in distress persists

Gepubliceerd op 22 juni 2016 om 09:57

Providers of youth with payment problems in the coming two years receive emergency financial assistance in order to care for problem children is not jeopardized.

Reddingsboei voor jeugdzorg in nood blijft bestaanThis option, which was offered last year to conduct the changes in health care supple, was run from 1 January. Secretary of State Martin van Rijn late today, however, know that the possibility of emergency aid will be extended until 2018. The loan must be repaid within one year.

Danger Zone
The surgery is not a luxury: this newspaper in April wrote that many providers of youth was standing water on the lips. About 40 percent were in the danger zone by payment problems, calculated the cooperating organization in this sector.

The institutions suffer more arrears of the customer: municipalities, which the youth have been in their care since 2015. They have increasingly decided not to pay in advance (advance), but afterwards.

Larger institutions
Van Rijn also expands the circle of organizations that qualify for the relief. It remains only to apply to larger institutions: they must be active in at least three regions and youth in at least twenty municipalities. Also there is a limit to the height of a loan to be provided.

On the advice of the Youth Transition Authority (TAJ), which holds the changes in the youth in mind, the recent period has been granted a total of approximately 35 million euros in eleven youth institutions and certified institutions with continuity problems. Names are not mentioned, however: the end of April came from the media instance out that Inter Metzo, one of the largest institutions in the country, would be on the verge of bankruptcy.

Jeugdhulp
Last year 362,000 children took over the town use any kind of youth, according to the latest CBS figures. Nearly 40,000 young people receiving youth which was also staying.

By Editorial AD Photo: Reuters

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