• Like other sectors, school activities are struggling to find candidates.

  • To make the profession more attractive, the city of Rennes has decided to increase the remuneration of its extracurricular and extracurricular activity leaders.

  • Annualized contracts will also be offered to certain animators instead of vacations.

Like catering or trade, the animation sector no longer attracts many people.

This summer, many monitors or animators were missing in summer camps or summer camps.

The precariousness of the contracts, the low salaries and the lack of prospects largely explain the disaffection of the candidates.

But these evils are not new and the two years of pandemic have brought to light the crisis that this sector is going through.

In this new school year, the situation looks complicated.

Many cities are therefore urgently looking for facilitators to welcome children during extracurricular or extracurricular times.

A work behind the scenes but which nevertheless proves to be crucial in promoting the development of each student.

“These are complementary times to school time which allow children to discover new activities and contribute to their success”, underlines Nathalie Appéré, Mayor of Rennes.

Annualized contracts instead of vacations

In the Breton capital, which has nearly 70,000 students, the municipality does not have too much trouble recruiting facilitators.

But it must, like all cities, deal with a high turnover, sometimes making childcare complicated.

To retain its animation teams and make the job more attractive, the city of Rennes has thus undertaken since this summer to increase salaries, which now stand at €10.90 per hour for 1 and €12 for level 2 leaders (bathing supervisor, secretary, inclusion leader, health assistant).

"This represents an increase of between one and two euros per hour," says Nathalie Appéré.

To fight against the precariousness of the profession (staggered or fragmented hours, lack of prospects for development, etc.), the Breton municipality will also experiment in two schools with the establishment of annualized employment contracts for facilitators who usually work as temporary workers.

"At each start of the school year, the facilitators will know how many hours they will work in the year, which gives them visibility", specifies Gaëlle Rougier, assistant delegate for education, who undertakes that "the contract becomes the rule and the vacation the exception" in the coming years.

Training will also be offered during the year to facilitators such as learning Breton, passing the BAFA Nature or raising awareness of disabilities.

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