#sicmonoparentals anne karine stocchetti presents gepetto by optimomes

Anne-Karine STOCCHETTI

Founding Director

Le mieux pour les mômes !

GEPETTO’s presentation

Barcelona – 14 mai 2013

The best for kids !

Who take care of children when their parents

work early in the morning, late in the evening,

weekends and holidays ?

14 mai 2013 / Barcelona/Optimômes

• In France, 2.4 million children less than 13 years

have parents who work with irregular schedule.

• Sectors concerned :

Hospitals, transport (trains, planes, buses),

communications, post, call centers,

supermarkets, food factories, service

jobs, hotels, restaurants,...

The list is long...


Who is concerned ?

• Parents who accumulate :

- Low skill,

- Low salary,

- Part-time work contracts,

- Fixed-term contracts,

- Single parenthood

• Note : 90% of single-parent families are headed by a

woman.


Who are the parents-workers the most fragile

in France ?

Ten years ago, in France, Gepetto is born :

Home-childcare-system for parents who work in

« irregular schedule ».


Garde d’Enfants Pour l’Equilibre du Temps professionnel, du Temps familial et son Organisation

« How it works ? »

(Childcare for the balance of working time, family time and its organization)

To answer :

• To irregular schedule,

• To a business trip,

• To a training course,

• To a failure of the usual childcare,

• In expectation of a place in a childcare structure

• To a quick taking up of a position (for example : temporary job)


GEPETTO intervenes…

At children’s home

For children until 13 years old

To take charge of all the sibship

On picking children up or on taking them back

All the week, days and nights

With qualified personnel

By a service affordable for everybody (billed according the incomes)

In complementary with the existing childcare offers (nurseries, individual nursery assistant, schools, after school

care, recreation centers) : Notion of missing link !


Human Resources of GEPETTO

• Stable employment (open-ended contract)

• A graduate staff :

- Early Childhood Educators (in French : “Éducateur Jeunes Enfants”)

- Childcare Assistants (in French : “Auxiliaire de puériculture”)

- Vocational Training Qualification in Early Childhood (in

French : “CAP Petite Enfance”) holders.

• Paid team meetings

• A strong professional identity built around the

sense of belonging to a educative team.


GEPETTO’s issues

• The child

To defend the right to childhood,

To promote equality between children,

To respect the biorhythms (sleep, meals ...).

• The work

To remove a brake on working for parents,

To better connect family life and professional life,

To create quality jobs for GEPETTO’s employees,

To promote women/men’s equal opportunities in employment.


The procedure

1 - An agreement is signed with :

- The ”Family Allowances Fund” (in French : CAF)

- The town Council (through the “Childhood-Youth

Contract”, “Contrat Enfance-Jeunesse” in French)

- The companies (via the ”Family Tax Credit” or “Crédit

Impôt Famille” in French)


The procedure (continuation)

2- The criteria of access are defined by :

- The geographical limits (areas, ...)

- The family situation (single parent, ...)

- The level of incomes

- The professional situation (kind of job, ...)

- The age of the children


The procedure (continuation)

3 - Organization of the service :

- Families call each Thursday to give their schedules for

next week.

- Building of the planning and confirmation to the families.

- Transmission to the teams by e-mail.

- The professional calls back the family the day before each

intervention.

- He comes on time, smiling (even at 5 a.m. !)

…with an educative case, filled of games ...


This system has been called “Home Relays”

by the “National Family Allowances Fund”

(“CNAF” in French) in 2004.

For a few months, the “National Family Allowances

Fund” tests out this system with the name of

“Specific Care”

with the same financing as the nurseries.



Today, GEPETTO is expanding by connecting to nurseries

A global answer

During the day, the nursery called

"The Tinies" takes children until 3 years old.

Sooner or later, weekends or

holidays, "Gepetto" take over from the nursery (for

youngest) and the school (for oldest).


A global, clear and simple offer

proposed to cities and companies

Yearly reservation of some childcare places in the nursery (during the day).

+ Yearly reservation of some hours of intervention

at home (early morning, late at night, weekends and holidays).


A connection also suggested to GEPETTO’s

employees

They can work in the nursery during the lunch

times, the activities and the educative outings.

It reinforces the educative consistency between

the collective domain and the private sphere.


Today this educative network is present in several cities in France :

- Vannes (56),

- Lorient (56),

- Rennes (35),

- Villeurbanne-Charpennes (69),

- Villeurbanne-Le Tonkin (69),

- Lyon (69),

And more are planned…


In all it’s :

- 180 children who

are taken care by

the nurseries.

- 10 000 hours of

intervention at

home.

Thank you for your attention !


www.optimomes.org

Tel :+ 33 (0)6 61 10 41 50

Anne-Karine STOCCHETTI

[email protected]

http://www.optimomes.org/

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