The Minister of Education, Édouard Geffray, indicated on Wednesday May 27 that staff who had behaved inappropriately with minors at school would now be placed on a blacklist, while presenting the child protection bill.
“That means we will have ousted a public official, a supervisor, etc. “because of his behavior with minors, even if he has not been convicted, he will be included on a list which will prevent any form of re-employment within the school”, he detailed at the end of the council of ministers. “He will not be able to go to another establishment. He will not be able to retake a competitive exam to become a teacher,” he added.
Supported by the Ministers of Health Stéphanie Rist and Justice Gérald Darmanin, the bill provides in particular for “systematic background checks for all those who supervise children”. With regard to the national education component, the text plans to strengthen checks on the integrity of personnel.
Shared files
Currently carried out only at the time of recruitment via consultation of the criminal record and files listing the perpetrators of sexual or terrorist offenses, this control will become continuous, indicated Édouard Geffray. “A periodic system will make it possible, in real time, to check the situation of those who are already recruited,” he assured.
Furthermore, “a systematic control of all occasional stakeholders, in an associative or professional capacity” will be established. They must present a certificate of good repute based on these same checks before any intervention with students.
Finally, the national education and youth and sports files will be pooled “to prevent a person who has been convicted or who has been ousted following a disciplinary sanction due to their behavior from knocking on the next door. »
“The objective is really to secure the entire academic and extracurricular sphere (…) so that from the moment someone sets foot in the school, we can have absolute certainty that they have never been condemned or sanctioned by the administration because of their behavior,” concluded the minister.
