Question 9701 — people with disabilities

Summary

Ms. Pascale Martin questions the Minister Delegate to the Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and Disabled People, responsible for disabled people, about the lack of solutions adapted to the care of disabled children, which prevents their parents from continuing to have a professional activity. As the Minister already knows, reception or accommodation facilities for disabled children are frequently closed for a month summer and during all other school holidays. Thanks to the disability compensation benefit, some parents can also use the services of local associations to take over during school holidays. But the staff of these associations are not always trained to care for disabled children, especially those suffering from serious pathologies. It then happens that associations stop their interventions overnight, leaving families in distress. The MP was recently questioned by the mother of a disabled child residing in Dordogne, separated from her ex-spouse, who is facing serious difficulties. She was suddenly notified on April 20, 2023 of the cessation of interventions by the ADMR of Dordogne at her home from the beginning of May, without her having any alternative solution, neither immediately, nor for the approaching summer holidays. This mother risks having to give up her job at the end of the school year to be able to take care of her son! Unfortunately, this is a common situation: it is still very difficult for parents of disabled children to find childcare arrangements that will allow them to keep their jobs. According to a 2018 report from the High Council for Family, Childhood and age, 54% of children with disabilities under the age of three are looked after exclusively by their parents, compared to 32% for other children. Many parents end up sacrificing their professional lives: among couples with at least one disabled child, both parents work in only 53% of cases, compared to 70% for other parents in a couple. These difficulties in accessing employment weaken parents disabled children, both economically and psychologically. But it is also an injustice towards women, since it is most often mothers who sacrifice their professional activity to be able to take care of their child, as a DREES study showed in 2020. This failure in care is discriminatory against disabled children and their parents, who should, like others, being able to benefit from after-school daycare and leisure centers during school holidays. She therefore asks what new measures the Government intends to take in order to guarantee solutions for caring for disabled children, throughout the year including during school holidays, guaranteeing parents the possibility of carrying out a professional activity.

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