Question 8108 — people with disabilities

Summary

Ms. Anaïs Belouassa-Cherifi alerts the Minister Delegate to the Minister of Labor, Health, Solidarity and Families, responsible for autonomy and disability, of the risk of closing the only theater school in sign languages ​​in France. In 2005 and 2016, Parliament passed two laws in favor of the inclusion of people with disabilities and more particularly in the field of cultural life and in the world of work. Unfortunately, these stated principles and the related inclusion public policy obligations are not always effective. Even today, a young deaf person can neither learn theater, because no conservatory is open to him, nor become an actor. This observation is part of a broader dynamic of exclusion from the labor market: according to the Observatory of Inequalities, 12% of people recognized disabled people were unemployed in 2022, 1.7 times more than the national average. It is in this context that two artists, Martin Cros and Alexandre Bernhardt, founded the Universal Theater School (ETU) in 2018, which was to remedy this injustice by making it possible to train deaf artists with courses taught entirely in sign language. This initiative is in danger due to budget cuts decided by the Government, since the accessibility of school fees was only possible through training aid from France Travail and the Association for the management of funds for the professional integration of disabled people (AGEFIPH). Since last year, AGEFIPH has completely withdrawn from financing “training assistance as part of the path to employment” for job seekers in a situation of disability. This sudden cessation of aid has already forced the ETU to part with an employee essential to the coordination of training. The amount of training aid from France Travail will be halved for the class of 2026, which is a direct consequence of the austerity imposed by the Government. These budget cuts jeopardize the very existence of the ETU for years to come, through the drastic increase in fees registration, the reduction in the salary of trainers and great difficulties to be expected in the search for premises for the school, despite agreements made with partners such as the Théâtre du Grand Rond in Toulouse. She asks him if the Government intends to implement the safeguard, preservation and protection of this unique space of cultural inclusion of disabled people that is the ETU, in the service of inclusion people with disabilities in the field of art and culture, in the name of the 2005 law which must be defended and respected.

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