全ネグレクト、緊急点検へ＝厚労省、鹿児島４歳女児死亡受け

　鹿児島県出水市で、大塚璃愛来ちゃん（４）が母親の交際相手の男に殴られ、その後死亡した事件で、根本匠厚生労働相は６日、閣議後の記者会見で、全国の児童相談所が対応している育児放棄（ネグレクト）の全事案を緊急点検する方針を明らかにした。週明けにも、実施する。
　厚労省は鹿児島県に職員を派遣し、児相と自治体の連携に不備がなかったかなどを調査。その結果、幼児だけの夜間外出や家族形態の変化など、虐待リスクが高まる兆候が見られたのに適切な評価が行われていなかったほか、一時保護に関する方針が児相と出水市で十分に共有されていなかったことなどが確認された。（2019/09/06-12:47）

Japanese welfare minister Takumi Nemoto has said his ministry will conduct nationwide inspections on all parental neglect cases urgently.
   The step will be taken in response to a case in which four-year-old Riara Otsuka died in late August after being hit by her mother's boyfriend in the city of Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The ministry will launch the inspections next week at the earliest.
   Speaking in a press conference on Friday, Nemoto also unveiled a plan to sort out points to watch out for in following the ministry's guidelines for responding to child abuse cases to be known to child consultation centers nationwide.
   After the death of the four-year-old girl in Kagoshima, the ministry sent officials to the prefecture to look into whether there were any problems in the responses taken by a child consultation center and local governments there.
   As a result, the officials found that, although signs of abuse risks heightening, such as the girl wandering alone at night, had been detected, the risks were not appropriately evaluated and the child consultation center failed to sufficiently share with the city of Izumi the views about whether they should temporarily take her into protective custody.