Coronavirus: The question of the reception of children by childminders not yet decided – Ina FASSBENDER / AFP
Edit: This article was updated this Thursday after 11pm, with new statements from Matignon, indicating that the matter was “still under arbitration”.
The question of the reception of children by childminders for the next three weeks was still being arbitrated on Thursday and will be decided definitively on Friday, said Matignon.
The same source had previously announced that the children could not be looked after by childminders in order to be “consistent with the nurseries” which will be closed during this period. If this option was still well considered Thursday evening, it was however not quite acted out, specified Matignon.
Earlier in the evening of Thursday, Matignon had indicated that some childminders will continue to welcome “priority audiences”, the list of which is being arbitrated. Home guards will “not be affected” by restrictions, according to Matignon.
Some 280,000 childminders in France welcome between one and four children. The President of the Republic announced Wednesday the closure of nurseries and primary schools for three weeks.
The question of compensation
“The study by the Institut Pasteur shows that there is more contamination among childminders than in schools”, explains Matignon, referring to a request from childminders. The question of the “compensation plan” of the employees concerned is “not yet completely settled”, it not being “necessarily that of partial activity”, it was specified.
During the first confinement to fight against the Covid-19 epidemic in March, the State had conversely relaxed the standards, allowing childminders to simultaneously accommodate six children instead of four and thus “gradually support the recovery of the activity “.
At the same time, those who had not been able to work during this period had benefited from the “exceptional allowances” system put in place for employees working for private employers.