Overview
- Paris’s minors prosecutor reports 15 investigations opened in 2025 into suspected sexual assaults in nursery and primary school settings, citing a sharp rise in reports.
- An animator and a colleague are due in court in Paris today in a case involving alleged assaults on several children at a maternelle.
- Minister delegate Aurore Bergé urges a legal requirement for a clean criminal record and yearly checks for everyone working with children, whatever their status, as part of a framework bill submitted to national leaders.
- A national “honorability” attestation that verifies bulletin B2 and the FIJAIS file was generalized in October for certain child-care fields, yet schools still show gaps, with an RTL test finding a journalist hired in minutes without qualifications or record verification.
- Paris says 30 animateurs were suspended in 2025, including 16 over sexual suspicions, while unions and parent groups argue city steps are insufficient and call for stronger staffing, better training, and improved working conditions in a sector heavily reliant on precarious vacataires.