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Published on: 24/07/2023Updated on: 24/07/2023
"Our role is to anticipate changes in the domestic work sector and social evolution to adapt the professionalization offer for childcare providers-childminders, dependency personal carers, and family assistants.” In line with these ambitions reaffirmed by Nadège Turco, Deputy Director of IPERIA, our teams have worked on restructuring these three professional qualifications supported by the professional branch of individual employment and domestic work, with a strong purpose: highlighting skills. France Compétences has just accepted this new architecture.
Why change the qualifications?
"Our objective for this new offer was to move beyond the training 'mountain' towards greater emphasis on skills enhancement. We have adopted the competency frameworks to account for the evolving needs of individual employers and the evolution of childcare providers, childminders, family assistants, and personal carer professions, to better promote their role": As Nadège Turco explains, the restructuring of IPERIA qualifications adds real value to these key domestic work professions.
Following the last qualification restructuring in 2019, France Compétences wanted fewer skill blocks and better enhancement and accessibility of the "family assistant" qualification. IPERIA therefore launched a reflection alongside its monitoring work on profession evolution. "We take into account feedback from IPERIA-certified training organizations, but also surveys, focus groups, and interviews, while considering sector challenges: namely 665,000 retirements by 2030, including 313,000 personal carers and 155,000 childcare providers/childminders, as well as 87,780 home care and housekeeping positions to fill in 2023 according to Pôle Emploi" explains Camille Savre, Head of Professional Certifications and Skills Engineering Service.
What will change
This new structure made it possible to reduce the number of blocks: each qualification previously included eight blocks, compared to 5-7 in the new version. Blocks 1, 2, and 3 are common to all three qualifications and specific to the sector:
- BC1, "managing your professional activity with your individual employer," is a merger of former blocks 1 and 2.
- BC2, "prevention and safety in your professional activity at the individual employer's home," is almost unchanged.
- BC3, "Home and laundry maintenance: eco-responsible practices," remains the same.
More specifically, the "Childcare provider/childminder" qualification still consists of 4 additional blocks (7 total versus 8 previously): personalized reception and support project, support for daily activities, awakening and socialization activities, and meals.
Regarding the "Dependency personal carer" qualification, the four blocks additional to the common core have been reworked with a significant evolution: a block dedicated to "maintaining social connections for individual employers with loss of autonomy or disability".
The most significant restructuring focuses on the "Family assistant" qualification, moving from 8 to 5 blocks. The objective was professionalization to promote home care jobs by redesigning professional qualifications. The most important change is the emphasis on personalized services facilitating families' daily lives for better identification of the profession and its social utility.And tomorrow?
This new architecture is applicable immediately. Our teams have worked on equivalences with the previous version of qualifications and other degrees or certifications to maintain cross-sectoral bridges and establish new ones.To facilitate the handover to training organizations, IPERIA organized a tour of France in May and June to present this new architecture and help them transition. We are convinced that these qualifications, accessible through training or RPL, work towards recognizing sector professionals' skills, as confirmed by employment follow-up. We are proud that they have been continuously registered with the RNCP since their creation in 2009. This remains the case for an additional three years.
