This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Hibapress-Rabat-MJ
On Thursday 22 DHUL HIJJAH 1446, corresponding to June 19, 2025, a council of government was held under the chairmanship of Aziz Akhannouch, during which the Council of Government deliberated and approved Bill No. 29.24 establishing the National Child Protection Agency, its child protection centers and the social care institutions, taking into account the formulated observations, presented by Abdellatif Wahbi, Minister of Justice.
This bill is part of the great importance given to the child in the legislative system and national institutions, where His Majesty King Mohammed VI, that God assists, pays him particular attention in the different major reforms and programs that our country knows, with a view to ensuring effective protection of the child and guaranteeing all of his human rights.
This bill aims to continue the various important legislative and institutional reforms in the field of child protection by answering a certain number of legal and practical questions faced by the institutional protection of children, in particular those linked to the legislative gaps relating to child protection centers, the constraints linked to the multiplicity of stakeholders and the factual difficulties linked to the lack of account category of children, as well as challenges related to the absence of institutional coordination.
In particular, the bill aims to create the National Child Protection Agency, a public establishment with legal personality and financial autonomy, responsible for implementing State policy in terms of child protection and promotion.
