2. Who take care of children when their parents
work early in the morning,late in the evening,
weekends and holidays ?
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3. • In France, 2.4 million children less than 13 years
have parents who work with irregular schedule.
• Sectors concerned :
Hospitals, transport (trains, planes, buses),
communications, post, call centers,
supermarkets, food factories, service
jobs, hotels, restaurants,...
The list is long...
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Who is concerned ?
4. • Parents who accumulate :
- Low skill,
- Low salary,
- Part-time work contracts,
- Fixed-term contracts,
- Single parenthood
• Note : 90% of single-parent families are headed by a
woman.
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Who are the parents-workers the most fragile
in France ?
5. Ten years ago, in France, Gepetto is born :
Home-childcare-system for parents who work in
« irregular schedule ».
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6. Garde d’Enfants Pour l’Equilibre du Temps
professionnel, du Temps familial et son Organisation
« How it works ? »
(Childcare for the balance of working time, family time and its organization)
7. To answer :
• To irregular schedule,
• To a business trip,
• To a training course,
• To a failure of the usual childcare,
• In expectation of a place in a childcare structure
• To a quick taking up of a position (for example :
temporary job)
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8. GEPETTO intervenes…
At children’s home
For children until 13 years old
To take charge of all the sibship
On picking children up or on taking them back
All the week, days and nights
With qualified personnel
By a service affordable for everybody (billed according the
incomes)
In complementary with the existing childcare offers
(nurseries, individual nursery assistant, schools, after school
care, recreation centers) : Notion of missing link !
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9. Human Resources of GEPETTO
• Stable employment (open-ended contract)
• A graduate staff :
- Early Childhood Educators (in French : “Éducateur Jeunes Enfants”)
- Childcare Assistants (in French : “Auxiliaire de puériculture”)
- Vocational Training Qualification in Early Childhood (in
French : “CAP Petite Enfance”) holders.
• Paid team meetings
• A strong professional identity built around the
sense of belonging to a educative team.
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10. GEPETTO’s issues
• The child
To defend the right to childhood,
To promote equality between children,
To respect the biorhythms (sleep, meals ...).
• The work
To remove a brake on working for parents,
To better connect family life and professional life,
To create quality jobs for GEPETTO’s employees,
To promote women/men’s equal opportunities in employment.
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11. The procedure
1 - An agreement is signed with :
- The ”Family Allowances Fund” (in French : CAF)
- The town Council (through the “Childhood-Youth
Contract”, “Contrat Enfance-Jeunesse” in French)
- The companies (via the ”Family Tax Credit” or “Crédit
Impôt Famille” in French)
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12. The procedure (continuation)
2- The criteria of access are defined by :
- The geographical limits (areas, ...)
- The family situation (single parent, ...)
- The level of incomes
- The professional situation (kind of job, ...)
- The age of the children
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13. The procedure (continuation)
3 - Organization of the service :
- Families call each Thursday to give their schedules for
next week.
- Building of the planning and confirmation to the families.
- Transmission to the teams by e-mail.
- The professional calls back the family the day before each
intervention.
- He comes on time, smiling (even at 5 a.m. !)
…with an educative case, filled of games ...
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14. This system has been called “Home Relays”
by the “National Family Allowances Fund”
(“CNAF” in French) in 2004.
For a few months, the “National Family Allowances
Fund” tests out this system with the name of
“Specific Care”
with the same financing as the nurseries.
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Today, GEPETTO is expanding by connecting to nurseries
16. A global answer
During the day, the nursery called
"The Tinies" takes children until 3 years old.
Sooner or later, weekends or
holidays, "Gepetto" take over from the nursery (for
youngest) and the school (for oldest).
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17. A global, clear and simple offer
proposed to cities and companies
Yearly reservation of some childcare places in
the nursery (during the day).
+
Yearly reservation of some hours of intervention
at home (early morning, late at night, weekends
and holidays).
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18. A connection also suggested to GEPETTO’s
employees
They can work in the nursery during the lunch
times, the activities and the educative outings.
It reinforces the educative consistency between
the collective domain and the private sphere.
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19. Today this educative network is present in several cities in France :
- Vannes (56),
- Lorient (56),
- Rennes (35),
- Villeurbanne-Charpennes (69),
- Villeurbanne-LeTonkin (69),
- Lyon (69),
And more are planned…
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In all it’s :
- 180 children who
are taken care by
the nurseries.
- 10 000 hours of
intervention at
home.
20. Thank you for your attention !
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www.optimomes.org
Tel :+ 33 (0)6 61 10 41 50
Anne-Karine STOCCHETTI
akstoc@optimomes.org
