Emmanuel Macron believes that it is necessary to “put in place a real right to childcare”, while admitting that the objective of creating nursery places has not been achieved during the five-year term.
Review the childcare system for young children, merge some social assistance: President Emmanuel Macron spoke on Thursday of various avenues to promote the integration of the most vulnerable and fight against “rooting of poverty” in France. “We thought we would open 30,000 crèche places over the five-year term and we will manage to open half as many, because our system is so fragmented today, so complex that it has become much too slow.», Declared Emmanuel Macron during his opening speech at the congress of the Federation of Solidarity Actors, which brings together hundreds of associations specializing in the fight against exclusion.
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The current childcare system “is a factor of territorial inequality that it is extremely difficult to avoid“, He added during this videoconference, considering that it was necessary”design a new, clearer system»To meet an estimated need of 200,000 additional places. It is “establish a real right to childcare, which should translate into an individual or collective form of childcare accessible to all parents with compensation in the event of no solution», Specified the president, who has not yet declared himself a candidate for his own succession.
Merge aid
Emmanuel Macron also pointed to the lack of clarity of the system for allocating social assistance, which he wishes to see evolve. “None of our social assistance works with the same rules, the same definition of resources” which means that “few people understand the system“, He lamented. “By merging the RSA, the activity bonus and the APL, we could lift hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty“. The flagship measure of the government’s anti-poverty strategy, the “universal activity incomePlanned to merge several social minima but this project was put on hold.
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“With such a merger, we would therefore lay the foundations for a new social system that is more efficient, more understandable and fairer.», Insisted the president to associations which fight against exclusion. Emmanuel Macron also praised the work of social actors, particularly in demand since the start of the health crisis. The government will organize in February a “social conferenceTo discuss their working conditions and suggest solutions to improve them.
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