The Denied Family

Jacob SODERMAN STRASBOURG Mr. Dr. Soderman, I hereby kindly ask Your intervention as regards the very serious institutional scandal of the non-application of the 184 orphans law in our country.

The unapplied point is orphans’ registry office. At present, we don’t know how many children are parked in the institutes and the consequences of this have repercussions both on the juvenile courts (which should get detailed six-monthly reports from institutes) and on the judges themselves, who should periodically inspect them.

If we don’t know the exact number of children and their personal situations, it is impossible to make adoptions and custodies work.

Apart from this, we presume there aren’t administrative controls: how does the state allocate public funds? On which basis these subsidies are distributed if we don’t really know the number of children to help?

Now, that’s why the undersigned Gabriele Cervi is addressing to You as European Mediator so that You can intervene to Italian Ministries, to the state or to the government, or to anyone else to point out the bad administration of institutions and community bodies in our country.

I am looking forward to receiving a prompt reply and I am at Your complete disposal for every clarifications You might need.

Best regards.

Gabriele Cervi --------------Cremona, 27th August 1998 To the attention of the member of European Committee Emma Bonino MP Radio Radicale Rome Mrs. Emma Bonino MP, After trying to send You some letters (here enclosed) (...), I take the permission to send You a Fax in Radio Radicale, as the matter has a social importance.

Hereby I am asking You to intervene as regards the serious institutional scandal concerning the non-application of the 184 orphans law in our country. The unapplied point is orphans’ registry office. At present, we don’t know how many children are parked in the institutes, except for the regions of Lombardy and Tuscany which have suitable regional registers. The consequences of this have repercussions both on the juvenile courts (which should get detailed six-monthly reports from institutes) and on the judges themselves, who should periodically inspect them.

If we don’t know the exact number of children and their personal situations, it is impossible to make adoptions and custodies work.

Apart from this, we presume there aren’t administrative controls: how does the state allocate public funds (it is about 24 thousand milliard a year)? On which basis these subsidies are distributed if we don’t really know the number of children to help?

Now, that’s why the undersigned Gabriele Cervi is addressing to You as European Mediator, so that You can intervene to the Ministry for Social Affairs, Mrs Livia Turco MP, or to the government, to point out the non-application of equal treatment and the bad administration of institutions, as institutes should be temporary welcome centres, in accordance with European standards.

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