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Dominica\u2019s Chief Welfare Officer Martin Anthony is welcoming an announcement that a facility for abused Dominican children will be commissioned next month.<\/p>\nDominica\u2019s Chief Welfare Officer Martin Anthony is welcoming an announcement that a facility for abused Dominican children will be commissioned next month.<\/p>\n
Anthony, who has long been speaking about the need for such an establishment, is optimistic that children who are victims of various forms of abuse will be protected when operations at the \u2018Place of Safety\u2019 get underway in Jimmit.<\/p>\n
The facility is expected to accommodate 32 children at any one time and also provides for \u201cindependent living\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cA young person who perhaps is not properly secured and would need to settle in and then to move on,\u201d Anthony has explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe continue to live in a society where children are constantly under threat, threat through neglect, threat occasioned by being sexually and physically abused\u2026we can\u2019t wait more to have this facility officially commissioned,\u201d Anthony said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominica\u2019s Chief Welfare Officer Martin Anthony is welcoming an announcement that a facility for abused Dominican children will be commissioned next month. Anthony, who has long been speaking about the need for such an establishment, is optimistic that children who…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":16537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educationyouth"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n