A diakonia is looking for an educational specialist - and many people are upset about it. Why?
Diakonie Michaelshoven is looking for a pedagogical specialist via a job advertisement. That's not unusual. That specialist is supposed to look after children and young people in quarantine.
And that's where the excitement starts.
An earlier version read :
“The focus of your work is on implementing the quarantine measures. To simplify this and prevent crises, for example, work with generous cell phone and media regulations. A Netflix account is available for children and young people.”
The job advertisement has now been changed:
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The excitement
The old wording of the description has been criticized in numerous places on the Internet and in inquiries to us. Two main points were claimed and criticized:
- Children and young people are “torn from their families” and isolated.
- Children and young people are “quieted” with Netflix
We wrote a detailed article including statements about the supposedly threatened isolation of children: Isolation of children if corona is suspected?
What also seems to have always been overlooked is that the old formulation examples to simplify work and prevent crises. This doesn’t mean that you give young people an account and say “ have fun with it ”, you don’t need an educator for that!
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The Diakonie’s statement
At the same time as the job advertisement was reformulated, Diakonie also published a statement on the allegations.
Here are the most important excerpts:
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This is an offer for children who either have an acute child welfare risk or who already live in a youth welfare facility and who are also suspected of being infected with the corona virus.These children are only temporarily accommodated in the group by the youth welfare office on a legal basis until it is clear whether an infection exists, so that in the event of an infection they do not infect children and young people in other facilities/residential groups.
We have created this special offer at the request of the youth welfare office because children and young people at risk have often not received adequate help over the past few months due to the corona pandemic. […]
We are aware that the topic of taking into care has been intensively discussed in some media over the past week. We would like to make it clear: Our offer is not about removing children and young people from an intact parental home, but rather about helping those who are either at acute risk due to their home environment or who already live in a youth welfare facility and may also be infected.
The complete statement can be on the Diakonie Michaelshoven website .
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