The neuropsychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik rendered a report on early childhood in 2020. He did not know, until our appeal, that the private cabinet Roland Berger had worked in parallel on the same subject. A mission to 425 000 euros, whose contours remain mysterious.
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Who missioned in 2019 the Cabinet Consultants Roland Shepherd for floor on the first thousand days of the child? And, above all, for what purpose, while a big report on the same theme had already been commissioned to a commission of experts led by neuropsychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik? Solicited by Le Monde, the government has not been able to specify the contours of this benefit at 425,000 euros. A case of a school of opacity that surrounds the intervention of these private council firms in the public sphere, which causes controversy since A senatorial vitriol report published on March 17
“This is part of the projects we are proud of,” welcomed Laurent Benarousse, one of the leaders of Roland Berger, when questioned about the subject in the Senate in January . According to him, his consultants intervened to “organize for the newborn for the newborn, but also for the mother, access to public services”.
This work has much less convinced within the state. The various mission of the firm on the “first 1,000 days of the child” received an average evaluation of 2.5 out of 5 by the interdepartmental director of public transformation (DITP), reports the commission of inquiry of the Senate on the influence of advisory firms in its report. In particular, the DITP found that the work of the ROLAND BERGER cabinet was “not at the level” and that its work on the encryption of different measures was “not up to a strategy firm”.
Contact by Le Monde In March, Boris Cyrulnik had insured not to be aware of the intervention of private consultants on this file. Sign that Roland Berger would have been solicited by the state in parallel with the work of the Committee, and not in the context of it.
A mission with fuzzy contours
In questioned, the Cabinet of Adrien Taquet, Secretary of State for Childhood and Families, now defends the existence of two different missions, which took place in parallel. On the one hand, so the team of scientific experts driven by Boris Cyrulnik, who worked from September 2019 at The remission of the ratio , in September 2020. On the other, a reflection to prepare The implementation of the recommendations of the said report, in particular to achieve financial estimates of certain measures or “identify each component of the thousand days’ path”.
The entourage of the Secretary of State states, however, not having been in direct contact with Roland Berger. “To anticipate, we work with the administration, we are told:” Get ready, we will have to rethink at the service of children and parents, “explains his cabinet director, Vincent Reymond. We asked the DITP of work on this subject and it is she who then chose to use Roland Berger. “
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