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In his next book, to be published on Wednesday, September 18, and to which “Libération” has had access, the journalist reveals an embarrassing proximity between the former minister responsible for private daycare centers and the sector’s chief lobbyist. Aurore Bergé denies this.
Who remembers that Aurore Bergé was Minister of Solidarity and Families? Not many, certainly. It must be said that the MP only occupied this position briefly, for barely six short months, from July 2023 to January 2024. But six important months. It was during this period that two investigative books on the private, for-profit nursery sector, which she supervised, were published almost simultaneously, which, before their publication, raised the threat of an Orpea for early childhood. In the end, nothing came of it.
Besides the information in the books was not of the content of the Gravediggers and that a report from the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (IGAS) had already revealed multiple cases of mistreatment in daycare centers a few months earlier, Aurore Bergé would have helped to put out the fire. According to the latest revelations by Victor Castanet in the Ogres, his book dedicated to private nurseries
