(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #247 - Social Work:
éducs all trades (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
The degree reform social workers concocted by the government makes less concrete and less
specific training in different specialties. She casts more risk on collective agreements
and working conditions. Faced with these setbacks, educators mobilize still too timidly.
---- While students from several schools of social rally for years for recognition of
their status (recognition of diplomas educator and social worker at license) and training
(internships and financing of their gratification) The Ministry of Social Affairs,
together with representatives of employers and training centers (the Unaforis) gave their
answer in the form of a comprehensive reform of the social professions. ---- Under the
guise of providing higher qualifications and greater "flexibility", this reform,
negotiated behind closed doors since 2013, is an attack over an already weakened by
previous sector reforms and budget cuts. The different trades representation organizations
and employee-es have virtually little or no had their say.
Single diploma
What will consist of this reform? Simply by the disappearance of the different social.
These will be replaced by a single degree social worker, divided into levels corresponding
to the classical education qualifications (tray, BTS, bachelor, master, doctoral ...).
Each level will have in common theory, with "modules" of specialization for each specific
field. (Disability, inclusion, child protection), and the idea of continuing education.
The courses, which are now fundamental in a sector working with humans and where learning
happens a lot through experimentation in the field, will be limited to a maximum of six
months (against nine now), with an option of bypassing if you already work in an area
"validating" the relevant modules.
Ultimately, this reform, which should, in his inititiateurs, provide greater versatility
and more suited to field training, has an impressive number of direct and indirect wholly
adverse consequences for workers and recipients of social action.
Attack against collective agreements
First, internship disappearance impoverishes the content of training, and will let the
future social workers outside the realities on the ground and with the public. Similarly,
the pooling of course is the culmination of the journey already begun by training centers
in recent years to replicate the degrees on a traditional university course, with the aim
of reducing costs, including through conduct part courses (if not all) at the university.
Fini term coaching in schools.
And perhaps more serious for future workers, the reform is an attack against more
collective agreements that protect different social professions (NCC 51 and 66). For
without diplomas, the agreement is null and void, and will surely be revised for the
benefit of employers who claim that reform long time. We already can already imagine that
the new formula will be much less favorable to the employee-es.
Reformatting the corresponding levels for educators and social workers, for example, are
that they will be trained to become project coordinators and not to educational support
(which had begun in previous reforms in 2007), thus allowing to hire graduates from lower
levels to the same tasks, resulting suddenly reduced wages for the same work on a large
scale, the price of a complete loss of sense of our businesses. As for mastering teachers
training and reform of nursing degree, the goal is, by addressing the training, allowing
large-scale reductions in public services costs, regardless absolutely catastrophic
effects for staff and public.
Mobilization to build
Faced with this reform, mobilization is organized although it remains too low. A
collective of professionals and future professionals, Éducs Future, was created and
organized a symposium day on the consequences of this reform on 22 November and 10
December, at the call of professional organizations, trade unions, and Future Éducs,
nearly 500 students, educators and professionals gathered in front of the Ministry of
Social Affairs against the current form of the project. Few professionals in the field are
aware of what is at stake and although they voted against the reform during his time in
technical committee representative trade unions have no or little communication on the
subject in the workplace . For now, the advanced claims are just a say in the content of
the reform, but before the silence of the ministry, it must go further. That comprehensive
reform is absolutely not a necessity and what the sector needs above all, it is the means
to accomplish its missions first. We need to mobilize and only strike will bend the ministry.
Yugz (AL 95)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Travail-social-Des-educs-a-tout
