The Dutch Child Protection Council has commissioned an investigation to check for institutionalized racism within its organization. “Almost a quarter of the families and young people we work with have an ethnically diverse background,” Iwan Bean, interim-director of the Council, told NOS. “That is a lot more than in society as a whole.” And that could indicate a bias problem.
There is no scientific evidence that the Dutch asylum policy attracts more asylum seekers and migrants to the Netherlands, according to a new study by the Verwey-Jonker Institute on behalf of the Ministry of Justice and Security.
Sexual abuse in youth care institutions is almost never reported or investigated, AD reports. The newspaper investigated several recent cases of young people being raped or otherwise sexually abused under the care of youth care. In none of these cases were the police called or the victim taken to a Sexual Violence Center for investigation and to secure evidence.
Mistrust in the government is currently the primary source of polarization among young people, youth workers said in two studies commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs. Radical right-wing ideas and conspiracy theories are also on the rise, but radical religious ideas have decreased, Trouw reports.
Hundreds of young Dutch people are at risk of forced marriage and abandonment abroad during the summer period because they often miss signs of danger. They are blind to these issues, often out of loyalty to their family, so that a seemingly innocent family visit abroad can end in a "one-way trip," claimed the LKHA, a Dutch information center specialized in research and policy regarding forced marriage and abandonment.