The Handicaps Collective is campaigning for a salary increase for professionals exhausted by the Covid, and invites presidential candidates to take up the subject.
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A “major crisis […] burden on people with disabilities and their families”. It is in these terms that the Collectif Handicaps, which brings together 51 associations representing people with disabilities and their relatives, described the situation of the social and medico-social professions, Tuesday, February 1. Collective militates “for a salary increase” in a sector that is struggling to recruit and where 30,000 positions remain vacant. “At the start of his career, a special education teacher receives 1,380 euros per month”, recalled Véronique Davallet-Pin, mother of three children including a 20-year-old boy with multiple disabilities received in a medical-educational institute (IME) in Savoie.
The health crisis has also increased the workload that weighs on these professionals. “With the Covid tsunami and the exhaustion of staff, there was a wave of resignations. The IME closed its units in turn, recruited temporary workers who are not trained”, says this mother, adding that “Inclusion is a very nice word on paper, but you still have to pay the price”.
The president of the Collectif Handicaps, Arnaud de Broca, shared a “real dissatisfaction” at the end of Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term. He said his “anger at the absence of the [thème du] disability in the presidential campaign”. The collective therefore invites candidates to a “great oral” on the subject on March 3 and 15, one month before the first round.