Grandstand. Even though half of the poor people in France are under 30, 2.9 million children (i.e. 20% of those under 18) live in a poor household, young people have experienced particularly difficult situations with the crisis due to Covid-19, that France lacks qualified labour, children and young people are the main absentees from the themes of this electoral campaign.
Yet it is on them that the future of our country depends. It is essential to promote a universal social investment plan for all children and young people, which not only guarantees the most vulnerable among them an escape from poverty and precariousness, but which enables all to carry out successful studies and find a job in the best conditions.
Before fighting against social exclusion once it is effective, it is important to better focus efforts on a preventive approach, from childhood. Fighting against child poverty and guaranteeing them the best childcare and early learning conditions helps to prevent exclusion, to give everyone the means to choose a life in line with their plans and to prepare a better-trained workforce. .
To do this, it remains necessary to guarantee a minimum income for all families. We must therefore not abandon distributive policies, but, on the contrary, develop them. It is also necessary to improve the methods of caring for children (support for families, training of childminders, development of quality collective care) in order to guarantee good primary socialization and learning conditions likely to properly prepare the child. ‘to come up.
All young children must be allowed to attend a quality group childcare service at least two days a week. It is also appropriate to develop, like the Nordic school systems, a school of success for all rather than organizing a sorting of students as their schooling progresses.
Adapted courses
These policies must enable young people to reach higher education in the best possible conditions, an essential stage in our knowledge-based economies, where qualifications play a central role, both in finding a good job and guaranteeing the productivity of economic activities. .
For two-thirds of the age groups who reach the baccalaureate, the secondary school leaving certificate is above all the key to further studies. We must offer them university courses that are adapted to them. On the other hand, the current concentration of means on the few elite courses in a context of global budgetary restrictions dries up the financial capacities of the majority of university courses at a time when they must accommodate ever more students.
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