Action reaction. The government will convene next week the four large groups of private crèches highlighted for their abuses denounced in two recent investigative books, the Minister of Solidarity and Families Aurore Bergé announced on Sunday. “From next week”, the representatives of these four companies, Les Petits Chaperons rouge, Babilou, La Maison Bleue and People & Baby, “will be summoned to my office because I want to understand concretely what happened and above all, I want to have their commitments,” declared the minister on Europe 1/CNews.
She recalled, as she announced on Thursday, that she wanted to “change the law”, by making checks possible at the headquarters of these companies, and no longer just in each crèche. “Open your account books, to the General Inspectorate of Finances, to the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (Igas), because I do not want to continue to have parents and reports that alert us,” said launched Aurore Bergé.
“Identify establishments at risk”
In the coming days, it will also bring together “the prefects who act in the departments, asking them to cross-reference all the data available” to “identify establishments at risk” and allow “very targeted and very rapid” controls. “If some do not respect safety, then we will have to close them, and take responsibility for this towards parents,” warns the minister.
The checks will take place “everywhere”, including in public nurseries, said Aurore Bergé. A report published in April by Igas “says that acts of mistreatment can also be individual acts, it is not the economic model which creates the mistreatment,” noted the minister.
20% private daycare centers today
” Today ; 20% of nurseries are private, 80% on a public or associative model. But we have a massive increase in the number of private crèches, so we must understand what their economic model is in order to guarantee that their growth, their profits, are not to the detriment of our children,” she added. .
Five months after this shocking Igas report on the prevention of mistreatment in nurseries, two investigative books published this week (The price of the cradle And Babyzness) have shed harsh light on the mode of operation of certain private for-profit structures.