Overview

• On July 9 the National Assembly’s children’s rights delegation approved 54 recommendations to establish a graduated, territorially balanced care pathway for children and adolescents.
• The report highlights a widening gap between rising demand—1.6 million French minors affected by psychiatric disorders—and a constrained, unevenly distributed and underfunded service offering.
• It proposes consolidating existing Centres médico-psychologiques and creating crisis units attached to paediatric emergencies and psychiatric hospitals rather than multiplying new expert hubs.
• After six months of work and forty expert hearings, the report calls for a comprehensive reform of psychiatric financing, including revaluation of paediatric psychiatry consultations.
• The delegation urges stepped-up prevention in family, school and digital environments and stronger coordination among health, social, medico-social and education sectors for vulnerable youth.