Glossary
AAH
Allowance for disabled adults (Allocation pour adultes handicapés)
ACAT
Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (Action des chrétiens pour
l’abolition de la torture)
AFPA
Association for the professional training of adults (Association pour la formation
professionnelle des adultes)
AGDREF
Application programme for the management of files on foreign nationals in
France (Application de gestion des dossiers de ressortissants étrangers en France)
AMP
Medico-psychological assistant (Aide médico-psychologique)
ANAFÉ
French National Association for the Assistance of Foreigners at Borders
(Association nationale d’assistance aux frontières pour les étrangers)
ANVP
French National Association of Prison Visitors (Association nationale des
visiteurs de prison)
APA
Personal care allowance (Allocation personnalisée d’autonomie)
APIJ
Public agency for real estate development for the legal system (Agence publique
pour l’immobilier de la justice)
APT
Association for the prevention of torture
ARS
Regional Health Agency (Agence régionale de santé)
ASH
Member of hospital staff in charge of maintenance and hygiene and sometimes
also assisting in care and socialisation of patients (Agent des services hospitaliers)
ASP
Public services and payments agency, a public corporation administrating funding
of public policies (Agence de services et de paiement) (formerly the CNASEA)
ASPDRE
Committal for psychiatric treatment at the request of a representative of the State
(Admission en soins psychiatriques à la demande d’un représentant de l’Etat, formerly HO)
ASPDT
Committal for psychiatric treatment at the request of a third party (Admission en
soins psychiatriques à la demande d’un tiers, formerly HDT)
AVS
Home help and care provider (Assistant de vie sociale)
CAF
Social security office (Caisse d’allocations familiales)
CAP
Sentence Board (Commission de l’application des peines)
CARSAT
Employment Health Insurance Fund (Caisse d'assurance retraite de la santé au
travail) (replaces the CRAM state regional health insurance offices)
CCR
Orders, behaviour, regime (Consignes, comportement, regime) (note used in the
GIDE software application)
CD
Long-term Detention Centre (Centre de détention)
CDSP
Departmental committee for psychiatric treatment (Commission départementale
des soins psychiatriques)
ECHR
European Convention on Human Rights
CEF
Juvenile detention centre (Centre éducatif fermé)
CEL
Electronic liaison register (Cahier électronique de liaison)
CESEDA
Code for Entry and Residence of Foreigners and Right of Asylum (Code de
l’entrée et du séjour des étrangers et du droit d’asile)
CFG
School leaving certificate (Certificat de formation générale)
CGLPL
Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté [Contrôleur général of places
of deprivation of liberty]
CHG
General Hospital (Centre hospitalier général)
CHS
Psychiatric hospital (Centre hospitalier spécialisé)
CLAN
Food and nutrition liaison committee (Comité de liaison alimentation et nutrition)
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