The collective No babies at the ticket offices, which brings together around fifty trade union organizations and associations, calls on early childhood professionals to go on strike on Tuesday, November 19, to denounce the lack of staff and the deterioration of reception conditions.
Demonstrations and rallies are planned in around forty cities in France, on the eve of International Children’s Rights Day. In Paris, a demonstration will start at 10 a.m. from the Place des Droits-de-l’Enfant, in the 14thmy city.
The group denounces, in a press release, “the deterioration of the reception conditions for young children and the working conditions of professionals”. Call for salary increases to remedy the lack of attractiveness of the profession and “emergency training for 15,000 professionals per year for five years”. Objective: achieve a supervision rate of one professional for every five children by 2027 and stop resorting to “Personnel without qualifications or experience”.
Currently, half of daycare centers in France lack professionals, according to government estimates. The sector, under tension for several years, is experiencing dysfunctions. Ordered after the death of an 11-month-old baby in a nursery in Lyon, a report from the general inspection of social affairs, published in April 2023, describes a quality of reception “very disparate” and called for profound reforms.
Currently, France has 460,000 collective daycare places, of which 50% in public daycares, 27% in private daycare centers and 23% in associative daycare centers.
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