After the Culture Pass and the Pass'Sport, "you need a PassColos", launches Anne Carayon, Director General of Outdoor Youth (JPA).
The association, which brings together 35 federations from the education sector, asks the government to offer a voucher of 300 euros to all children aged CM2 to be able to go to summer camp.
"It is damaging that children arrive at college without ever having gone on a collective stay," said Christian Dominé, president of the JPA.
The confederation "must meet in June the Minister of National Education and Youth Jean-Michel Blanquer, and Secretary of State Sarah El Haïry", continues Anne Carayon.
According to the organization, 836,000 9-year-old students, from all social classes, could thus benefit from the PassColos, the total cost of which is estimated at 250 million euros, details the JPA.
Too expensive for 27% of poor families
For ten years, summer camps have been less popular and "the number of departures has stabilized at a low point," notes the organization. In total, 15% of parents want to offer such a stay to their child, according to an Ifop survey for the JPA. However, 75% of people polled (against 80% in a previous survey published in 2011) think that holiday camps "contribute to the education of (their) child, to (their) learning for life", and this almost in equal proportions in all social categories, according to the survey.
Among the reasons put forward is the price (27% of poor families justify their refusal of the colony, against 5% of the well-to-do).
The Ifop survey was carried out with a representative sample of 1,003 people, parents of children aged between 7 and 15, according to the quota method, and interviewed by self-administered online questionnaire from 11 to 17 may.
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