DECRYPTION – The number of reception places has been falling since 2017. Even Germany is doing better.
For a long time, France was able to boast of an efficient early childhood system, certainly largely subsidized, but facilitating the work of mothers, ahead of Germany, for example. But the situation was reversed when a program to create crèches was set up across the Rhine by Ursula van der Leyen when she was Minister for the Family. In France, the system seized up. Since 2015, the creation of places in crèches is no longer sufficient to compensate for the reduction in the number of places for childminders, many of whom retire without being replaced.
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Despite an investment of 15 billion euros for the reception of young children, the system is now out of breath. “Between 2016 and 2019, 15,300 reception places were destroyed. Today, 40% of children under 3 years old have no childcare solution. More than one in two children cared for by their parents or relatives is so for lack of any other solution”, deplores Elsa Hervy, delegate…
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