The family allowance funds have announced that they will cover the costs of childcare, for the year 2022, for children displaced from Ukraine, to support families who have fled their country.
“The administrators of Cnaf have approved the free childcare for all the children of persons benefiting from temporary protection, such as those who have fled Ukraine. The Cafs, via the single service provision, will directly bear the cost of their reception”, specifies the National Family Allowance Fund in a press release of April 5, 2022. This surge of solidarity aims above all to better support and support families who have fled Ukraine to following their country’s armed conflict with Russia, this free reception in French crèches will also allow parents to concentrate on all the administrative paperwork, the search for accommodation, training or employment. Babies will also have the opportunity to better learn the French language, and to flourish in a secure and adapted environment.
Nurseries wishing to welcome Ukrainian children can “report their availability of places to the prefect of their department, who is responsible for receiving displaced persons from Ukraine, and approach the associations designated by the prefectures for the support of these families in order to promote their service offer “, specifies the Cnaf. Childcare establishments are also invited to make their service offer known on the internet platform.I am committed to Ukraine“.
6,873 Ukrainian students educated in France
As of March 31, there are 6873 to be educated in schools, colleges and high schools French since February 24, according to the Ministry of National Education. 43% of these children are in elementary schools, 30% in colleges, 19% in kindergarten and 8% in high schools. The establishments in the towns of Nice, with 674 children, Versailles (587 children), Grenoble (432 children), Lyon (368 children) and the department of Normandy (368 children) receive the greatest number of children. Ukrainian pupils.
“We are organized for this reception with crisis cells in each rectorate of France“, had indicated Jean-Michel Blanquer this March 15 during a visit to the elementary school Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Épinay-sur-Seine (in Seine-Saint-Denis), in the company of the First lady Brigitte Macron. Also , to enable Ukrainian students to integrate smoothly and their classmates to understand them better, teachers have access to educational resources to address the situation in Ukraine in the classroom.
Also, to allow Ukrainian students to integrate smoothly and their classmates to understand them better, teachers have access to educational resources to address the situation in Ukraine in the classroom. During this visit and through an interpreter, two Ukrainian pupils aged 8 to 10 said that they were “happy to be in this school” and to be able to “play football with the other children”. of their age. “We have a welcome experience in the languages of the children, in this case in Ukrainian, to know where they are, what is their level, how to welcome them psychologically”, added Minister of National Education, who recalls “the importance of preserving children as much as possible from the harshness” of the war in Ukraine. Brigitte Macron had meanwhile stressed that children were “welcome” in France. “The French will welcome them as they always do, with their hearts (…) We explained to them why, and how much we were with them” declared the wife of the President.