Tribune. The scandal of ill-treatment inflicted on our elders in some accommodation institutions for elderly dependent (EHPAD) upset. A logic of privatization associated with a lack of serious control, insufficient number and qualifying staff have predicably induced practices quite intolerable in the reception of dependent persons. Everyone understands that it belongs to the state to review the mode of operation and regulation of EHPAD.
At the time of an awareness of abuse towards vulnerable seniors, is not it time to ensure the well-being of welcomed babies, also fragile and dependent? In the hosting modes of toddlers, the stake is that of dignity or respect, but also that of the conditions favoring their good development. Like the reception of the elders in the EHPAD, the State is expected to put in place an entourage by qualified personnel, regulations and control modes guaranteeing this quality welcome for babies.
The recent directions of the reforms – from the Ordinance of 19 May 2021 on the services to families – introduced by the Government on hosting modes of concern because they inevitably lead to a degradation, recalling the one that affects the EHPAD. , of the quality and ethics necessary for this reception. First of all, the requirement for standards is singularly reduced. The recent reform now allows an adult to host a group of six small nursery babies, compared to an adult rate for four children in Germany and one for three in Denmark. Always according to these new standards, the host structures are also allowed to accommodate 15% of children by surprising, according to our calculations, during a large part of the day, in spaces to unchanged surfaces.
Stay closer to the interests of children
And to make good measure, the Government exhibits on this experimental basis to entrust the quality control of the structures to their main co-financer, the family allowance crates (CAF). It is therefore to be feared that they do not favor the rationalization of costs on human quality, especially since CAFs do not have competent health professionals or early childhood education. In these circumstances, which will bring an expert judgment on the hospitality, educational and social projects of future crèches as well as on their compatibility with the needs of development and development of very young children and their families?
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