The nursery will be closed Tuesday November 19. A message discovered by many parents whose children are looked after in this type of care. The “No babies in the locker” collective calls on early childhood professionals to stop working to denounce the lack of staff and the deterioration of reception conditions.
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The parents had to organize themselves. No daycare for their little ones who don't yet go to school. In Besançon in Doubs, 9 municipal daycare centers will be closed out of 13. Others will operate partially.
“We are more and more versatile. I have been an auxiliary childcare worker for 18 years, and we are always asked for more. We welcome families with children who have autistic disorders, language disorders, various disabilities, we have to adapt, observe, listen” testifies Emilie Borey-Maire, employee of the city of Besançon, speaking to our journalist Thierry Chauffour.
We are not recognized as a result, and some colleagues are leaving, there is a lack of educators for young children, while the children we look after are the adults of tomorrow, we must not forget that.
Emilie Borey-Maire, auxiliary childcare worker, employee of the city of Besançon.
Half of the nurseries in France are facing a shortage of staff.
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The “No babies in the locker” collective, which brings together around fifty trade union organizations and associations, is calling 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“. Some choose to go to the private sector to be paid a little better.
For Maria-Elisabeth De Freitas, CFDT Public Service in Besançon, one of the solutions to increase salaries would be to grant the Ségur bonus to early childhood staff.”Salaries have not been increased for years, this means that the profession is no longer attractive” she believes.
Currently, half of daycare centers in France lack professionals, according to government estimates. There are 460,000 collective childcare places in our country, of which 50% are in public crèches, 27% in private crèches and 23% in association crèches.
In 2022, the death of this 11-month-old infant who had ingested Destop in a private nursery sparked a wave of emotion, shed harsh light on the dysfunctions in certain structures and led the government to commission a series of reports.
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