October 1976
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Revue de Neuropsychiatrie Infantile et d'hygiène Mentale de l'enfance
No other sector of social work is so averse to 'institutionalization' as special prevention; the 'activities of special preventive clubs and teams' is the only form of social work that has no mandate from the authorities. The clubs and teams have developed so much in recent years that their integration into the general policy of prevention of social maladjustment has become a necessary field of study. The findings were laid down in official administrative texts: the inter ministerial decree of July 4, 1972 and 7 explanatory notes. This recent, highly detailed legislation in a very special and limited field is of the greatest interest owing to the nature of specialized prevention work, which constitutes a real challenge to administrative regulation. Only rarely the legislation has been worked out in thorough consultation with all parties concerned, meeting in the Technical Prevention Council. All parties involved agree that the official views on special prevention as laid down in these are excellent, but in practice, their application still gives rise to many difficulties, owing to the use which the authorities make (or more often fail to make) of the regulations they have drawn up themselves. An analysis is presented of a number of administrative texts on the following subjects: the institutional organizations that constitute the framework in which the prevention clubs and teams have to work; the tutelary role of the authorities; the way in which the authorities exert their guardianship through decrees and decisions concerning licences, regulations, money supply and technical control; recognition of the specific nature of the prevention clubs and teams.