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ASE: 11 Billion Euros, and Children Plunged into Hell Eleven billion euros. That is the budget France allocates each year to child protection. In 2023, the departments spent 11 billion euros on child protection, 80% of which went toward ASE foster care services. The average annual cost of care per beneficiary is 41,000 euros nationwide. Eleven billion. And what is the result? DREES A parliamentary investigative report presented on April 8, 2025, by Representative Isabelle Santiago denounces “a state scandal” and “an ecosystem that is now in a state of collapse.” Children in the ASE system...

ASE Shelters: The Republic’s Children Left at the Mercy of Pimps What is happening in some Child Welfare Agency shelters is not a mere dysfunction. It is a moral collapse. Young girls placed in state care—who are supposed to be protected by the state—are being recruited by pimps right outside the gates of their shelters. In France. In 2025. According to the recent parliamentary commission of inquiry on children in foster care, 15,000 minors are victims of prostitution in France, the majority of whom are children in the care of the Child Welfare Services (ASE). The Ministry of Justice...