Sarah El Haïry, High Commissioner for Children, presented the Prime Minister with the report entitled “For comprehensive protection of children”. It aims to draw all the conclusions from the failures revealed by the Lyhanna affair and to accelerate the implementation of concrete responses against violence against children. The 20 decisions revolve around four priorities: better identify dangerous situations, better protect children, better support professionals and better support victims and their families.
The 20 priority decisions given to the Prime Minister:
1. Create a unique criminal background check service and administrative aspects of people working in contact with minors.
2. Strengthen teacher training on programme EVAR(S)* from the start of the 2026 school year.
3. Strengthen the STOP number and experience the creation of specialized structures for the care of people with a sexual attraction towards children, before they commit the act.
4. Set up a interministerial group of inspectors dedicated to the prevention of violence and its treatment.
5. Create a national applicationfree and secure, offering a single entry point to all listening and emergency services.
6. Create a mandatory national training base for professionals working in contact with children.
7. Create within the ENTs a accessible reporting area to each student from second grade.
8. Establish a family information protocol whose child was exposed to an accused agent.
9. Deploy a coordinated network of pediatric reception units for children in danger (UAPED) to guarantee the child’s right to an appropriate hearing.
10. Establish a national prosecutor’s office to combat child crime or a specialized center within an existing public prosecutor’s office.
11. Make sexual crimes against minors imprescriptible.
12. Create a national monitoring file individuals involved in investigations of sexual violence against minors.
13. Guarantee psychological treatment for the trauma for each child victim.
14. Strengthen support for minors who commit sexual violence without hindering criminal sanctions.
15. Create a national status of ad hoc administrators and strengthen their training and promote financial support.
16. Install child-friendly courts.
17. Make mention in the Constitution of the best interests of the child.
18. Create a Childhood Code.
19. Create a specific offense of apology for child crime.
20. Create a Council for victims of violence during their childhood.
In addition to the 20 priority measures, the High Commissioner wanted to highlight protection in the digital environment. Violence against children has changed in dimension and is no longer limited to physical spaces: it now originates, is prepared, organized and spread in digital environments, which have become major areas for predators to identify victims, to place them under control, and to disseminate child criminal content and sexual exploitation.
Find the report “For comprehensive protection of children– From prevention to reconstruction, Building a continuous chain of protection «
*Education in emotional and relational life (EVAR) in nursery school and elementary school, and education in emotional and relational life, and sexuality (EVARS) in middle and high school
