Overview

• Catherine Vautrin will introduce a child protection bill this autumn to expand foster recruitment by permitting assistants to combine their role with other employment.
• A pilot program launching this summer in Gironde and Var will test new placement procedures, boost the appeal of foster professions and trial funding mechanisms.
• The ministry will review staffing ratios and standards in infant care facilities, which currently operate at 108 percent capacity, to reduce overcrowding and limit placement durations.
• The reform mandates coordinated care pathways and new support centers to deliver comprehensive psychosocial and medical evaluations for children entering Aide sociale à l'enfance.
• End-2022 figures from Drees indicate that 381,000 social assistance measures aided minors under 21, including 208,000 placed outside their family homes.