France: Out of breath, actors involved in social assistance for children are mobilising

On Thursday, 15 May, a rally was held before the Departmental Council in Chartres to denounce the critical state of the sector. Some 200 people were present to demand human and financial resources.

In France, some 400,000 children are the subject of a State protection measure under the social assistance for children, which is managed by the departments and aims to help families in difficulty and children at risk. However, the scheme has been saturated for several years. On Thursday, 15 May, the collective Les 400,000, which brings together the actors involved in child protection, calls for a general mobilization to demand emergency measure…

The Collective "Les 400.000", which brings together the actors involved in the protection of children at risk, gathered on Thursday 15 May in France, faced with the many difficulties and the saturated device for several years, to ask for emergency measures and more means for the protection of children. Faced among other things with the placements of children in danger deferred, young adults delivered to themselves, the collective "Les 40 000" wi…

On Thursday, May 15, 2025, about 700 social workers from Brittany, Normandy and the Pays de la Loire gathered in Rennes to warn about the deep crisis in child protection. At the call of the collective "Les 400,000", they marched from the Departmental Council to the prefecture of the region, where they symbolically hung doudou on the grids to represent the children waiting for care. This action is part of a national mobilization organized in seve…

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The collective of the 400,000 manifests this Thursday, May 15, in 8 cities including Paris in order to urgently ask for additional resources. The director general of the Cnape, Pierre-Alain Sarthou, discusses the main demands raised by the associations and federations of the collective.