# ‘This is systemic’: Parents demand accountability over child abuse in French childcare system

https://mins.news/en/item/40112

- France 24, 2026-09-01 10:18 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/this-is-systemic-parents-demand-accountability-over-child-abuse-in-french-childcare-system

> Anne, co-founder of SOS Périscolaire, says the controversy over France’s after-school childcare system reflects a systemic failure of local institutional accountability. Despite known warnings about violence, its fragmented structure has not produced adequate change, leaving children’s repeated verbal or behavioural signals struggling to be heard by the institutions meant to protect them.

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