Young children - Using child-minders in Paris, present situation and future prospects

Young children - Using child-minders in Paris
At the beginning of the 2000s and for over10 years the birthrate in Paris rose greatly, which led to an increase in the number of young children. This increase was accompanied by more places in collective day-care centres being created while the use of independent child-minders remained relatively stable at a rate of 5% of children cared for under the age of 3.
The study aims to assess the situation of this type of care within Paris in order to understand why it is used so little. It shows that Parisian child-minders have a specific profile compared to other working Parisians and also child-minders in the rest of Ile-de-France. They are older, most often of foreign origin and generally less qualified. They look after fewer children (2.3 as opposed to 3 in France) which is linked to the Parisian housing stock. On the other hand child-minders in Paris work longer hours (152 hours per month on average compared with 101 hours in France) also their fees are higher.
It appears that this type of care is often chosen by families as a a last resort, however, the level of satisfaction is high among parents who use it. Therefore the reason for it being used so little may lie above all in a lack of visibility of information on this type of care, it being, on average, more expensive than other available care and in a territorial imbalance due to the geography of the Parisian social housing stock.
The study puts forward ideas linked to the identified hinderances.

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