In an order published Saturday, the government raises the maximum number of children with the goal of facilitating replacement search in case of sick leave.
Le Monde with AFP
To anticipate the potential stops of maternal assistants Given the rapid rise in SAR-COV-2 contaminations, the government has decided to increase the maximum number of children that every professional can welcome on Saturday 1 e January, with the hope of facilitating the search for replacement solutions for some parents.
Maternal assistants operating at home or in a maternal assistant home can, from Monday, “hosting up to six children simultaneously” and eight by counting children under 11 years of age, According to a decree published in the Official Journal, Saturday.
The Code of action Social and families expects , in normal times, that a maternal assistant can accommodate up to four children whose custody has been entrusted to him and six by counting the children of his family. In case of emergency and in particular to land the absence of “a momentarily unavailable colleague”, The regulation establishes that this maximum is increased by a child, depending on the initial approval: if a professional welcomes less than four children, total children Guarded can not exceed this ceiling.
Compulsory parents’ information
“Subject to the respect of sufficient security conditions”, the maternal assistant who exercises at his home or home of maternal assistants “is authorized [e] to accommodate up to six children simultaneously”, according to This decree. As of Monday, when the maternal assistant will work at home, “the number of minors of all ages placed under [his] exclusive responsibility” and “present simultaneously at his home” will not be superior to “eight, of which at the Maximum four children under 3 “, says the government.
In maternal assistant homes, the number of children “simultaneously welcomed” will not be able to “exceed twenty”. The maternal assistants who will host “simultaneously a number of children higher than the accreditation” will have to inform “the parents or legal representatives of the children who are usually entrusted” as well as the President of the County Council. In addition, the precise decree that in collective crèches, halt-daycares and kindergartens “a professional can accommodate alone up to three children”.