Maud Descamps, with Europe 1 with AFP 06:30, October 27, 2021

The government has decided to grant aid of 200 euros to 20,000 young people so that they can more easily finance their Bafa, which is essential to be a leader.

A welcome support to try to resolve the labor shortages in this sector, but a sum too small to generate vocations, according to professionals. 

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You may have experienced this by trying to register your children at the leisure center for the All Saints holidays: some centers are obliged to refuse children for lack of animators to take care of them.

A supervisory shortage that has lasted for more than a year: it lacks about 10% of the workforce, or about 5,000 positions.

The government has announced the payment of aid of 200 euros to finance training in animation professions.

This aid will be paid in 2022 for 20,000 young people.

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These 200 euros will be used to finance the Bafa (certificate of aptitude for the functions of animator), essential diploma which costs in total between 800 and 1,000 euros.

But for professionals in the sector, this boost decided by the government to boost the attractiveness of these professions is too weak to fill the current gaps.

"The mother's employer called us"

Thus, in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine, some centers have had to refuse children for All Saints' Day. "We were forced to reduce by around 10% to 12% our reception possibilities and the number of places offered in leisure centers", explains Jean-Daniel Lemercier, of the Rural Families association of Ille-et. -Ugly. "In the vast majority, there is an understanding of families. But in certain situations, we could not welcome the child and it is even the employer of this mother who called us to try to find a solution."

This shortage of candidates observed today is also explained by unattractive salaries in the sector: between 38 and 85 euros per day for 10 hours of work, or a salary of 3.8 to 8.5 euros per hour.

In a survey published on Monday, 82% of employing structures said they had recruitment difficulties, especially in animation (74%).

The 1,182 structures surveyed report 5,245 unfilled positions to date, which represents 10% of their total workforce, according to the professional organization Hexopée and the Youth and Popular Education Cooperation Fund (Fonjep), co -authors of the study.