Reform Commission
Hedwig Wölfl, member of the reform commission for SOS Children’s Villages, about a culture of errors, power structures and the limits of an organization that has not questioned itself for too long
Hedwig Wölfl is a clinical psychologist and managing director of the child protection organization Möwe. For nine months, as a member of the independent reform commission on the SOS Children’s Villages case, she investigated how the cases of abuse and the structural failure at Austria’s largest private provider of child and youth welfare could come about.
The temperature display on the way to Börseplatz showed 39.1 degrees on Saturday afternoon. The heat is shimmering on the almost deserted streets of Vienna’s city center. In the small office of the equally empty headquarters of the Möwe child protection facility, things are just a little more bearable. Hedwig Wölfl fans herself. The Möwe managing director seems relaxed. The day before, she appeared before the press together with the former President of the Supreme Court, Irmgard Griss, and the other members of the Reform Commission to present the results that they had developed over nine months of work on the SOS Children’s Villages case.
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