“No babies in the locker”: it is under this national slogan that the challenge of childcare facilities has been organized for years, in the face of various reforms aimed at modifying the rates of supervision. A strike call is launched on Tuesday, March 30, in reaction to the text currently carried by the Secretary of State for child protection, Adrien Taquet.
This reform, integrated into the ASAP (Acceleration and Simplification of Public Action) law, notably provides for “ the option of opting for a single rate of supervision of one professional for six children ”. However, for the federated strikers behind the collective “No babies at the deposit”, this rate of supervision must not exceed ” one professional for five children, whatever the age “. Other claims aiming to protect the quality of reception and the working conditions of the employees: the guarantee of a surface of 7 m² “minimum per child”, the maintenance of the capacity of the micro-creches to ten children (the reform the door to twelve toddlers ), or the refusal to see the management of establishments entrusted to inexperienced professionals …
“Difficult to mobilize”
“Personally, it is this last point that worries me the most,” says an employee of an early childhood structure in Rouen, where several municipal nurseries will remain closed on Tuesday. In Le Havre, the town hall only reports two public establishments partially affected by the strike. “It is difficult to mobilize in the region, these concerns seem remote” and the movement “No babies at the deposit” “does not really have local representation”, continues the professional Rouen. In fact, if demonstrations are planned everywhere in France this Tuesday, no visible mobilization is organized in Normandy. Which doesn’t mean that the weariness isn’t real. “We talk all the time about schools in the face of the health crisis, deplores the striking employee in Rouen. But never early childhood structures! “
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