Overview

• The commission urges the state to formally acknowledge its responsibility for decades of physical and sexual violence in schools and to create a dedicated fund for victim compensation and support.
• It calls for annual inspections of primary boarding schools, triennial reviews of secondary schools and full audits of private institutions at least every five years to plug oversight gaps.
• The report proposes lifting the confidentiality of religious confession in cases of abuse of minors under 15 and launching a cross-party mission to make certain child crimes imprescriptible.
• Co-rapporteurs Paul Vannier and Violette Spillebout highlight persistent multiform violence across public and private schools, describing a “véritable déchaînement de violences” institutionalized in some establishments.
• The inquiry formally censures Prime Minister François Bayrou for a “défaut d’action” and misleading testimony that allowed abuses at Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram to persist.