This Thursday, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is going to Angers and Laval to discuss the obstacles to employment, such as childcare, for which she should detail the financing of the 200,000 new places in nurseries, planned by 2030. In addition, the objective is to better prevent mistreatment.
Elisabeth Borne is going to Angers and Laval on Thursday to discuss the obstacles to employment, such as childcare, for which she should detail the financing of the 200,000 new places in crèches envisaged by 2030, despite the shortage of personnel in this sector. The Prime Minister thus anticipates the presentation to the Council of Ministers next week of the bill reorganizing the public employment service.
An “additional financial contribution” of 5.5 billion cumulative over 2023-2027
Childcare “is one of the most important barriers, along with mobility, to access to employment. When a child arrives in a couple, it is often the woman who is forced to withdraw from the market. labor”, noted Elisabeth Borne in an interview with Ouest-France posted online Wednesday evening. In Angers, with the Minister of Solidarity Jean-Christophe Combe and the Secretary of State for Childhood, Charlotte Caubel, she will visit a nursery labeled Avip (for professional integration), which allows people looking for work to have priority in the allocation of places and to benefit from a structure with a wide time slot.
It will then close a CNR (national council for refoundation, editor’s note) dedicated to early childhood where it should detail the financing of 100,000 additional places in crèches by 2027, with the objective of achieving 200,000 new places by 2030. Young children currently have 458,000 crèche places, and 770,000 with childminders. These new places will benefit from an “additional financial contribution” of 5.5 billion cumulative over 2023-2027, according to Matignon. Municipalities with more than 3,500 inhabitants will also become “organizing authorities” for the reception of young children, with the mission of identifying needs, informing families and building the offer. This provision will be included in the Employment Bill.
Prevent abuse
After an alarming report by the Igas (General Inspectorate of Social Affairs) published in April, which called for far-reaching reforms in the sector to better prevent abuse, the Prime Minister will also discuss measures likely to improve the quality of reception. , such as a system of “escalation and follow-up of reports”, or more controls. Approvals for nurseries will thus be “limited to ten years, with a systematic meeting halfway through”, explains Elisabeth Borne.
In addition to nurseries, an “Innovation Fund” of 70 million euros will develop childcare “adapted” for people in difficulty, and the government will “increase aid from CAF (family allowance fund) for the employment of a childminder so that this solution does not cost more than a crèche”. The government estimates that 49% of crèches lack professionals. It will therefore also be a question of the means to remedy the lack of attractiveness of these professions, “aggravating factor as much as symptom” of the difficulties in welcoming children well, according to Igas.
In Laval, with the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, Elisabeth Borne will defend the bill for the establishment of “France Travail” which must succeed “Pôle Emploi” to better coordinate the various actors of employment. On this occasion, she will participate in a “job dating” with several companies facing recruitment difficulties and will sign a State-region “protocol” to “push the cursor a little further” in local employment governance.
Source: Europe1
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