Question 8825 — young people

Summary

Mr. Aly Diouara questions the Minister of State, Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research, on the structural failures of controls relating to the supervision of volunteers in civic service within state and associative structures. If civic service should in no case replace paid employment, we observe that certain missions entrusted to young volunteers are poorly defined and sometimes removed from the general interest of educational or civic value to get closer to real salaried missions, which is contrary to the legal framework defined by the national service code. National education is today the main contributor to the civic service system with thousands of young people mobilized each year in its establishments, which represents around 20% of young volunteers. However, she also remains one of the least controlled public services in terms of the conditions for carrying out these missions. In addition, control responsibilities in this area sometimes rest on the shoulders of decentralized services such as the DSDEN. As a result, National Education plays the role of judge and party, preventing in-depth and rigorous controls from being carried out. This case therefore presents a risk of institutional conflicts of interest. We we also observe that certain associative structures, such as Unis-Cité, have made civic service not a lever for individual and citizen emancipation, but a quasi-industrial model of welcoming volunteers, based on a logic of massification. To the detriment of personalized support, this logic of concentration tends to standardize the courses, thus reducing the experience to a simple service. social, with no real transformative value for young people. In 2024, Unis-Cité welcomed 14,411 volunteers, or nearly 10% of the 149,878 young people engaged in civic service nationally. Added to this is the training of nearly 19,000 tutors, also entitling them to public funding. According to its own data, the association received 28 million euros in public funds over this period, representing a very significant share of its operating budget estimated at 41.8 million euros, of which 67% comes from public funds. This concentration of resources, on an unprecedented scale, reveals a dominant position which weakens the diversity of the associative fabric. Beyond the number, the type of missions carried out by Unis-Cité also raises questions: orientation, awareness, civic and citizenship training, support for future projects, etc. So many functions that fall under principle of the prerogatives of the civic service agency and not of a single operator mandated without public debate. This de facto monopoly limits the diversity of educational approaches, slows down the emergence of local initiatives and distorts the spirit of civic service, which should be based on plurality and territorial anchoring. These deviations are not marginal. They are structural and reveal a worrying shift towards precariousness disguised as a mission of general interest, where thousands of young people engage in a framework that they believe is meaningful, even though it sometimes contributes more to the operating logic of an organization than to their own emancipation. Such a dominant position deserves to be questioned, particularly with regard to the principle of diversity, local experimentation and social innovation that civic service claims to promote. He him therefore asks what initiatives it intends to implement in order to guarantee compliance with the legal framework of civic service, to prevent the abuses observed and to ensure effective control by an external and independent body of the conditions of mobilization of young volunteers within its ministry.

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