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A. GELEBART / 20 MINUTES

No longer leaving parents "alone, before and especially after childbirth", such is the current objective of family policy.

In the wake of the extension of paternity leave, the government announced Sunday a battery of new measures to support young children and their parents "often lost".

"The idea is to accompany them during the first 1,000 days", explains to the JDD the Secretary of State for Children and Families, Adrien Taquet.

Objective: three million euros per year

For this, the State is inspired by the report on the “first 1,000 days of the child” of a commission of experts, chaired by the child psychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik and submitted to the government at the beginning of September.

The executive now announces that it wants to invest three million euros per year to "generalize early prenatal maintenance, in the fourth month of pregnancy" and "strengthen the maternity teams, by creating 200 additional positions by 2021".

“We will increase home visits after birth, especially in the fifth week and third month, which correspond to peaks of postpartum depression.

An illness from which 30% of mothers suffer, ”promises Adrien Taquet.

“The goal is not to define the code of the good parent but to transmit ten key messages, on breastfeeding, exposure to screens or ordinary educational violence.

Everything will be entered in the health record.

But also in the application "1000 days" which should be put online next summer, "said the Secretary of State.

Change for child care

Adrien Taquet also indicates that he wants to set up “specific courses to take into account certain weaknesses”.

"We are going to create 10 new mother-baby units to hospitalize those who need it most, and 20 additional mobile teams in perinatal psychiatry," he explains.

On the childcare side, the 280,000 childminders, usually authorized to look after a maximum of four children, will be able to receive one more, in an emergency, one week per month.

And a platform will be set up "to centralize and geolocate all available places".

Adrien Taquet also assured that the government was going to "look" at parental leave which the Cyrulnik report recommends to improve compensation.

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