Overview
- The École du périscolaire was inaugurated on Monday in Paris’s 13th arrondissement as the operational centerpiece of Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire’s emergency plan.
- The city published concrete targets that include a mandatory 48‑hour initial course for about 14,000 agents, a 100‑hour cycle for 3,000 titular and contractual animateurs, and a goal of offering 70,000 training sessions per year.
- Paris faces an active legal situation with 132 suspended animateurs since January (52 suspended for suspected sexual or sexist violence) and more than 200 criminal inquiries opened by the Paris public prosecutor.
- Officials say the school will drive longer‑term professionalisation by encouraging BAFA certification, contractualising 2,000 additional agents and building stable teams trained across the mayoral term, with political oversight set to continue at a Senate hearing on 16 September.
- The measures aim to change day‑to‑day safety for children by standardising prevention teaching, tightening recruitment and checks, and improving victim support while responding to parental complaints and possible legal claims against the city.