“We propose that at the end of the March elections, each municipal executive creates a delegation” | EUROtoday

QFourteen million kids reside in France – nearly one in six inhabitants. They breathe the identical polluted air, endure the identical housing disaster, the identical heatwaves and the identical social tensions as adults. However, their voice stays nearly absent the place a big a part of their each day lives are determined: city halls.

In most municipal executives, kids’s rights are dissolved into “education”, “youth” or “school affairs” delegations. Useful, however inadequate: we proceed to consider kids as “citizens of tomorrow” somewhat than as topics of rights – the correct to be shielded from violence, the correct to first rate housing, the correct to wholesome meals, the correct to a free conscience, the correct to play, to take care of themselves, to take part in choices that concern them, because the International Convention on the Rights of the Child remembers. This additionally authorizes a type of institutional “adultism”: we determine for them, we communicate for them, we consider the town from the peak of a automobile somewhat than from the peak of a kid.

However, the warning indicators are piling up. Sexual violence scandals are breaking out, amongst different issues, in after-school actions, revealing flaws within the recruitment, coaching and monitoring of supervisors. Groups of oldsters and professionals denounce so-called “ordinary educational” violence, the insecurity in sure reception areas, and the absence of structured responses. Public experiences recall the fact of youngsters on the road, households caught in substandard housing, and limitless queues to entry a baby psychiatrist. At the identical time, little one poverty is growing and inequalities in entry to leisure, sport, tradition, public house and nature are worsening.

As the municipal elections of March 2026 method, the diagnoses converge: the municipality is an academic participant in its personal proper. But one hyperlink remains to be lacking: an specific political delegation for youngsters’s rights in every municipal council. We are proposing a easy, readable and transpartisan measure: that following the March elections, every municipal government creates a kids’s rights delegation. Its mission: to ensure that, in all native insurance policies, choices are reread within the mild of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child. It may very well be the driving power behind a number of structuring tasks.

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