He wants to relaunch social integration, which has suffered from the pandemic. Review the reception system for young children, merge some social assistance: Emmanuel Macron spoke on Thursday of various avenues to promote the integration of the most vulnerable and fight against “the entrenchment of poverty” in France.
“We thought we would open 30,000 nursery places over the five-year term and we will manage to open half as many, because our system is now so fragmented, so complex that it has become much too slow,” said Emmanuel Macron during his speech. opening speech of the congress of the Federation of Solidarity Actors, which brings together hundreds of associations specializing in the fight against exclusion.
200,000 additional reception places needed
The current childcare system “is a factor of territorial inequality that is extremely difficult to avoid”, he added during this videoconference, considering that it was necessary “to design a new system, clearer »To meet an estimated need of 200,000 additional places.
It is a question of “putting in place a real right to childcare, which should result in an individual or collective reception method accessible to all parents with compensation in the event of no solution”, a specified the president, who has not yet declared himself a candidate for his own succession.
Merge RSA, APL and activity bonus
Emmanuel Macron also pointed to the lack of readability of the system for allocating social assistance, which he wishes to see evolve. “None of our social assistance works with the same rules, the same definition of resources” so that “few people understand the system”, he lamented. “By merging the RSA, the activity bonus and the APL, we could lift hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty.”
The flagship measure of the government’s anti-poverty strategy, the “universal activity income” planned to merge several social minima, but this project was put on hold. “With such a merger, we would therefore lay the foundations for a new social system that is more efficient, more understandable and fairer”, insisted the president to associations which fight against exclusion.
Emmanuel Macron also praised the work of social actors, particularly in demand since the start of the health crisis. The government will organize a “social conference” in February to discuss their working conditions and propose solutions to improve them.