Not enough qualified personnel?
Expand the applications to as many people as possible.
This is the credo decided by the government to reduce the lack of staff in nurseries, according to a decree issued at the end of July and published on August 4 in the Official Journal, as spotted by La Gazette des communes.
The Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and Disabled People, Jean-Christophe Combe, had promised it at the end of July to players in the sector.
Concretely, this new order establishes a new list of people qualified to work in collective crèches and kindergartens.
But it also makes it possible to override this list, “exceptionally, in a local context of shortage of (these) professionals (…) derogations from the conditions of diploma or experience may be granted in favor of other people”.
In other words, this decree, which will come into force at the end of August, will allow everyone to work in this type of establishment, "in consideration of their training, their past professional experience, particularly with children, their motivation to participate in the development of the child within a team of early childhood professionals and their ability to adapt to a new professional environment".
A sector in difficulty
According to a survey by the National Family Allowance Fund (Cnaf), published in early July, 48.6% of the 8,000 responding establishments declared a lack of staff for children.
“8,908 positions with children are declared permanently vacant or not replaced on April 1, 2022, i.e. between 6.5% and 8.6% of the total workforce of professionals with children”, summarized the Cnaf.
An observation that many French people can make, on a daily basis, with difficulty in having their children looked after.
A committee charged by the government with working on the lack of attractiveness in the sector had stressed, last month, the need to increase the number of places open in initial training for these professions, but also to go "to seek out vocations , energies and talents wherever they are”.
“My government wishes to build, with the communities, a real public service for early childhood”, assured the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, at the beginning of July.
And to promise: “It will make it possible to offer the 200,000 missing reception places.
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