Wellenstein Centre Opens in Moutfort as CSEE Continues Decentralisation

On Thursday 8 October 2026, Luxembourg’s Ministry of Education, Children and Youth reported on the official inauguration of the Wellenstein Centre in Moutfort.

Luxembourg’s Minister for Education, Children and Youth Claude Meisch inaugurated the Wellenstein Centre in Moutfort on Wednesday 7 October. The centre has housed the central administration of the State Socio-Educational Centre (CSEE) since the start of the 2026/2027 school year. It was previously located at its historic site in Dreiborn.

“The opening of this new site, as well as two residential groups in Moutfort, marks another important step in the transformation of the CSEE. Smaller groups, decentralised throughout the country, enable educational work with young people that is adapted to current realities and was no longer possible in the former buildings in Dreiborn,” said Minister Meisch.

The State Socio-Educational Centre (CSEE) accommodates minors who are placed there by decision of the judicial authorities for an indefinite period and, as a general rule, until they reach the age of eighteen.

The ministry said the inauguration of the Wellenstein Centre and the relocation of the CSEE management to Moutfort mark another step in the decentralisation of the CSEE. As part of this process, two CSEE residential groups, each accommodating six young people, will gradually move to the Wellenstein Centre from November.

In the longer term, the CSEE will leave its historic site in Dreiborn completely and move to different locations throughout the country. An important first step in this development was taken in 2020 with the opening of a first residential group for nine young girls in Bourglinster. The CSEE’s mobile educational service, meanwhile, left Dreiborn in December 2025 and moved to Roodt-sur-Syre.

A stronger connection with young people’s living environments

The ministry detailed that decentralisation is a key element in the development towards a socio-educational centre that is better adapted to the current realities of youth support. It aims in particular to promote smaller structures that are more closely integrated into young people’s living environments.

This development also forms part of the future reform of youth protection and the separation of juvenile criminal law from youth protection. While Unisec, the CSEE’s secure unit, will become the Juvenile Detention Centre and come under the authority of the Prison Service, the CSEE will continue its decentralisation into small residential groups distributed throughout the country and will focus on youth protection, the prevention of juvenile crime and work with families.