Some private crèches practice “cradle filling” in order to optimize their profitability. Carpenter M / Andia.fr
Before the publication of two books-surveys on nurseries, the major companies in the sector are on the grill.
Rationed meals and children who end the day “hunger in the stomach”practices of “cradle filling”diapers changed on the chain, infernal rhythms for childcare auxiliaries… Can a scandal of the magnitude of that of Ehpad Orpea break out in early childhood?
Before the publication of two books-surveys on nurseries, the major companies in the sector are on the grill. The Price of the Cradle: what the privatization of nurseries does to children (Éditions du Seuil) by Mathieu Périsse and Daphné Gastaldi, and Babyzness (Éditions Robert Laffont) of two journalists from Parisian, Bérangère Lepetit and Elsa Marnette. The two books focus on the practices of the large private groups that appeared in the crèche sector twenty years ago: Grandir-Les Petits Chaperons Rouges, Evancia-Babilou, La Maison bleue and People and Baby.
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