The No babies in the locker collective, which brings together around fifty union organizations and associations, calls on early childhood professionals to go on strike on Tuesday, November 19, to denounce the lack of staff and the deterioration of reception conditions.
Demonstrations and rallies are planned in around forty cities in France, on the eve of International Children's Rights Day. In Paris, a demonstration will leave at 10 a.m. from the Place des Droits-de-l'Enfant, in the XIVe arrondissement.
The collective denounces, in a press release, “the deterioration of reception conditions for toddlers and working conditions for professionals”. He calls for salary increases to remedy the lack of attractiveness of the profession and “emergency training for 15,000 professionals per year over five years”. Objective: achieve a supervision rate of one professional for every five children in 2027 and stop resorting to “staff without any qualifications or experience”.
Currently, half of the daycare centers in France lack professionals, according to government estimates. The sector, under tension for several years, is experiencing dysfunctions. Ordered after the death of an 11-month-old baby in a Lyon nursery, a report from the general inspection of social affairs, published in April 2023, described a quality of welcome “very disparate” and called for profound reforms.
Currently, France has 460,000 collective childcare places, of which 50% are in public crèches, 27% in private crèches and 23% in association crèches.
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