Question 16456 — young people

Summary

Ms. Sandra Delannoy alerts the Minister of Sports, Youth and Community Life on the effective quality of the missions proposed within the framework of civic service and on the means of control available to the Civic Service Agency to guarantee it. Since its creation by the law of March 10, 2010, civic service has enabled more than 875,000 young people to engage in missions of general interest, within structures of which 80% are associations. The system provides for a commitment of at least 24 hours per week, for a period of six to twelve months. The State finances most of the compensation paid to volunteers, up to 504.98 euros per month, to which the host organization adds 114.85 euros, bringing the total compensation to 619.83 euros net per month. If the excesses linked to the substitution of employment are regularly documented, the opposite phenomenon (missions the real content of which is insufficient to substantially occupy the volunteer during the contractual period of commitment) remains largely absent from institutional evaluations. However, recurring testimonies from volunteers report days marked by inactivity, a lack of concrete tasks to accomplish or missions whose scope was insufficiently defined by the host organization. The survey carried out in 2024 by the Civic Service Agency talks to recruiters about the need to improve the match between the quality of missions and the aspirations of young people, which suggests that the problem is identified internally without being fully measured. This gap is all the more worrying since the means of control of the Civic Service Agency have not kept pace with the increase in power of the system. Since 2010, the number of volunteers has been multiplied by 25, going from 6,000 to nearly 150,000 in 2024, without the staff dedicated to quality control within the Agency and decentralized services having experienced a comparable increase. The 2025 annual public report of the Court of Auditors, devoted to policies in favor of young people, highlighted the general insufficiency of the evaluation tools available to the State to measure the effectiveness of its youth policies, noting that “the evaluation tools were too weak”. The finance bill for 2026 plans to reduce the civic service envelope from 580 to 465 million euros, imposing a reduction in the annual target from 150,000 to 110,000 volunteers. This contraction makes rigorous management of the quality of the remaining missions all the more necessary. If the system can no longer guarantee a high volume of missions, it must at least guarantee that each proposed mission offers substantial and educational content to the volunteer who undertakes it. It asks it, on the one hand, to specify the staff allocated to quality control of missions within the Civic Service and Decentralized Services Agency, the number of on-site controls carried out annually compared to the number of approved structures and the qualitative indicators used to assess the density and effective content of missions beyond just post-engagement integration indicators. She also asks if the Government is considering, in the context of the budget reduction planned for 2026, making the maintenance or renewal of approvals conditional on criteria relating to the actual content of the missions, in order to guarantee that each volunteer benefits from a substantial commitment, in accordance with the spirit of the law.

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