In the wake of the extension of paternity leave, the government announced Sunday a battery of new measures to support young children and their parents "often lost".
“Parents feel quite alone, before and especially after childbirth.
The idea is to support them during the first 1000 days, ”the Secretary of State for Children and Families, Adrien Taquet, told JDD.
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Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday the decision to increase paternity leave to 28 days, including 7 mandatory days, based on the report on the “first 1,000 days of the child” of a commission of experts, chaired by the child psychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik and handed over to the government in early September.
200 new maternity positions by 2021
Taking up other elements of the report, the government announces that it wants to invest 3 million euros per year to "generalize early prenatal maintenance, in the fourth month of pregnancy" and "strengthen the maternity teams, by creating 200 additional posts of here 2021 ”.
And “we will increase home visits after birth, particularly in the fifth week and third month, which correspond to peaks of postpartum depression.
An evil from which 30% of mothers suffer, ”promises the Secretary of State in this interview.
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“The goal is not to define the code of the good parent but to transmit ten key messages, on breastfeeding, exposure to screens or ordinary educational violence.
Everything will be entered in the health record.
But also in the application '1000 days' which should be put online next summer, "said the Secretary of State.
Adrien Taquet also indicates that he wants to set up “specific courses to take into account certain weaknesses”.
"We are going to create 10 new mother-baby units to hospitalize those who need it most, and 20 additional mobile teams in perinatal psychiatry," he explains.
An additional child possible for a childminder
On the childcare side, the 280,000 childminders, usually authorized to look after a maximum of four children, will be able to take in one more, urgently, one week per month.
And a platform will be set up "to centralize and geolocate all available places".
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Adrien Taquet also assured that the government was going to "look" at parental leave which the Cyrulnik report recommends to improve compensation.
Going beyond the framework of the "first 1000 days", the States General of the fight against violence against children are to take place on November 17, he said.