The Minister of Solidarity, Jean-Christophe Combe, asked the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs to carry out a mission to understand what could have led to this tragedy and to propose solutions.
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A mission to understand and provide solutions. The Minister of Solidarity, Jean-Christophe Combe, announced on Monday July 11 that he had seized the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (Igas), after the death of an eleven-month-old girl last month in a creche of the People & Baby group in Lyons. The child was poisoned with drain cleaner.
The mission is responsible for bringing “quickly clarify the factors which, in this crèche, in this network, or in the general framework of the reception methods, could have contributed to the installation of situations of danger or mistreatment”, explains the ministry. It should also provide “solutions to fix it” and the minister “will quickly discuss the regulatory changes likely to be implemented as early as the fall”.
The new minister made this announcement while meeting on Monday with the members of the Early Childhood Sector Committee, set up last November, which brings together representatives of childcare facilities and the public actors concerned. In addition to taking into account the emotion aroused by this tragedy in Lyon, it was a question of responding immediately to the concerns expressed by professionals about the shortage of staff in childcare facilities.
The Minister has released two million euros to finance a campaign to promote and promote early childhood professions. He suggested several measures to improve the early childhood service: the obligation to create a parents’ council in all crèches, the establishment of a system for reporting and national monitoring of incidents or the periodic obligation to external evaluation including parental satisfaction.