The Minister of Education, Elisabeth Borne, announces, in an interview published on Saturday March 15 in the evening, a strengthening of controls and a rise now “Systematic” Acts of violence in private education under contract, under the spotlight since the revelations on Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram.
This is“Organize a systematic rise in facts of violence, better collect the speech of students, and strengthen controls in private education under contract”she said in the columns of La Tribune on Sunday.
Located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, the College-Lycée of Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram is at the heart of a vast investigation into violence, sexual assaults and rapes denounced by more than a hundred complainants for facts going up to the 1950s and which spread over half a century.
60 additional inspectors deployed
Since these revelations, collectives have emerged all over France to denounce physical and sexual violence committed in other private Catholic establishments, splashing the reputation of this sector where 2,059,650 students are in 7,190 establishments.
In order to “Ensure that such violence can no longer happen again”Elisabeth Borne announces a strengthening of controls of private establishments under contract, so far “Few”which can “Appear paradoxical, since the State finances them each year up to 10 billion euros”. To remedy it, “A support mission” will be created within the general inspection and “Will intervene alongside academic teams for particularly problematic situations”.
In total, “60 additional inspectors will be deployed in 2025 and 2026” And “40 % of private establishments under contract will be inspected in the next two years, half of which are visits on site”details Elisabeth Borne who had already mentioned such figures.
The reports will be made compulsory
Concerning reports, private establishments under contract will have to deploy the application “Establishments”already in force in the public, which “Allows to reassemble sensitive cases to the rectorate, and the most serious, at the national level”according to the minister. These reports “Will be made compulsory” by decree.
Academic teams will also be alerted when a message or a call to number 119 childhood in danger “Set in abuse” in all schools, private as public.
Three decades after his last inspection, Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram will be controlled by the Bordeaux rectorate from Monday. Asked about the question of potential withdrawal from the establishment’s approval, Elisabeth Borne declares that she will take “The necessary measures” Depending on the conclusions of the inspection which relates to the current functioning of the structure.