National Minors’ Service (SENAME - Chile)
National Minors’ Service (SENAME - Chile)
About

The National Service for Minors ( Sename ) is the Chilean state agency responsible for the protection of the rights of minors and adolescents before the judicial system. They are also responsible for regulating and supervising the adoption of minors. Created by Decree Law No. 2,465 of the October to January of 1979 , replacing its functions to the National Council for Children and the Foundation Chilean boy. It depends on the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights . 

The Service carries out its management in accordance with the instructions of the various courts distributed throughout the country. All services and assistance provided in the institution, except the Rights Protection Offices (OPD), are linked to justice. Children and adolescents who receive care have been sent directly by the Family Courts, that is, they are prosecuted.

In April 2016, with the death of Lissette Villa (an 11-year-old girl) 3 inside a Center, the precarious conditions in which the children were kept were discovered 4 Since then a series of commissions and bills They have tried to reform the system.

Mission

Contribute to the promotion, protection and restitution of rights of children and adolescents in violation, as well as to the social responsibility and reintegration of adolescents who violate the law, through programs executed directly or by collaborating agencies of the service.

 

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Type of organization

1 office
1979

Company Offices

  • Chile (headquarters)
  • Santiago
  • Orphans 587