Escola e conselhos tutelares: duas décadas de compassos e descompassos na política de atendimento à juventude

Abstract

This study originates from the fact that 30.32 % of inmate population in Brazil has not concluded its primary education, 7.22 % are illiterate and two-thirds are 18-24 years old to verify if the relation between educational system and Child Protective Services have any impact in reducing the age bracket of inmate population, for evidences indicate that imprisoned youth has been through both education and Child Protective Services systems. Considering that coordinated action between the education system and Child Protective Services contributes to reducing the rate of 18-24 years old people among the Brazilian inmate population, the activities of Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Nova Iguaçu (SEMED) and five of the city’s Child Protective Services are researched. The main goal is to find out if the relation between public schools in Nova Iguaçu and Child Protective Services have any impact reducing the inmate population between ages 18-24. This is a basic search as well as a qualitative and an explanatory research, its main tool for collecting data is semi-structured interviews with people related to the research’s object. Primary and secondary sources are also used to this end. This research, developed in Nova Iguaçu, indicated that a few elements were crucial to isolating institutions that are part of a safety net for children and teenagers. As city’s authorities interfered with Child Protective Services’ structure, growing mistrust took place, making communication among education system and city councils even harder. Other data evidences the lack of records from the Secretaria Municipal de Educação on the amount of students taken to Child Protective Services during previous administrations. In 2013, the Child Protective Service of Vila de Cava pointed out to the Promotoria of 3ª Vara da Infância e Juventude de Nova Iguaçu the need to notify SEMED as a way to decrease the number of Fichas de Comunicação de Aluno Infrequente (FICAI) as well as the number of children and teenagers involved in infractions. This diagnosis prompted the Promotoria to take action concerning SEMED and the city’s Child Protective Services to decrease the truancy rate, which revolves around 5%. The government’s failure to provide conditions to implement corrective measures as well as poor infrastructure and lack of training of Child Protective Services’s employees to deal with issues concerning schools takes part on the statistics from the Juizado da Infância e Juventude, which took 1446 cases from January 2014 to January 2015.