Management of the Group La Maison Bleue pinned for « frequent breaches » – Liberation
Failures in terms of quality of reception, false declarations, financial anomalies, refusal to cooperate: the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (IGAS) pinning in a report published Monday, June 16, management of the group of private crèches La Maison Bleue. The group, which was the subject of investigations from March to December 2024, refused to transmit certain elements and documents to the mission, indicates the IGAS in its report of a hundred pages. But the elements collected and analyzed « Be sufficient to demonstrate important shortcomings in the group’s financial and accounting management ».
The inspection points to « Practices, sometimes intentional, transmission of erroneous information to the administration (municipalities, CAF) which have systematically intended to maximize public funds ». Some observations « Could come under the criminal field, in particular the operation of outsourcing of the group’s real estate as well as the perception of PSU (Single service provision, editor’s note) by establishments having declared having ceased their activity ”add the Igas.
With regard to The quality of the receptionthe report evokes « Frequent breaches » compliance with the rules of supervision and qualification in crèche, noted deficiencies « In 49 % of the visit reports carried out by the maternal and child protection services (PMI) in 2023 ”.
The mission, which specifies having went to 17 crèches during his investigation, estimates that « The quality of the reception in the crèches is based on a high level of engagement Professionals, which aims to compensate, without systematically achieving it and at the risk of exhaustion, the difficulties linked to the optimization of human resources ”. Solicited by AFP, the blue house was not reachable in the immediate future.
Founded in 2004 in Ile-de-France, the group claims to receive 20,000 children in its network of 600 crèches, which relies on 6,000 employees and reports an annual turnover of around 300 million euros. The image of the private nurseries sector – dominated by Babilou, Growing up (Les petits chaperons red), People & Baby And the blue house – was quite shaken by the death of an 11 -month -old girl in a People & Baby crèche in Lyon in June 2022.
This drama had led the government of the time to grasp the IGAS to analyze the sector. Posted in April 2023, the inspection report described a quality of reception « Very disparate » And called for deep reforms. A few months later, Two pounds-investigations (The cradle price And Babyzness) had sunk the nail, throwing raw light into the operating mode of certain private for -profit structures.
