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New centres for disabled, juvenile delinquents
DUBAI - Three major social establishments will be added next month to the infrastructure of qualitative social services offered by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs to various categories of the society particularly those special categories including the disabled, the juvenile delinquents and the elderly.
Obaid Ghanem Al Shamsi, Director of the Special Categories Department of the ministry, said yesterday that as part of the ministry’s strategy to streamline its social services and provide care for all members of the society, it will operate from next month three centres for the special categories two for the juvenile delinquents and one for the disabled.
The new establishments, Mr Shamsi said, include a special centre for the female juvenile delinquents in Sharjah which is still in the process of being furnished and equipped and will be handed over to the ministry in 15 days, another centre for the juvenile boy delinquents in Fujairah which had already been handed over to the ministry and is also being prepared to start functioning soon and a centre for the rehabilitation of the disabled in Ajman.
“These three projects were carried out in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Works and Housing at a total cost of more than Dh21 million, including Dh6.5 million for the girls juvenile delinquents centre in Sharjah and the Ajman centre for the disabled and Dh7 million for the Fujairah boys juvenile delinquents centre, in addition to the furnishing and equipment costs,” Mr Shamsi said.
The juvenile centre for the girls is the first to be run by the ministry for teenagers who are now being locked in prison with criminals. “The new centre is designed to accommodate around 100 girls. But it is not necessary that it will have all this number at the same time.
Because the delinquents is only kept at the rehabilitation centre when he or she is convicted by the court.
He said that building another centre for juvenile delinquents for boys in Fujairah, in addition to the one already available in Sharjah and another in Abu Dhabi, is not an indication that the number of youngesters going astray is on the rise.
According to the social affairs report of the years 1996 to 2000, the Abu Dhabi and Sharjah juvenile delinquents units received a total of 314 in 1996, which decreased to 268 in 1997, then rose to 293 in 1998, and kept increasing to 372 in 1999 and 383 in 2000.
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