IPERIA's 2023 Events Review and Wishes for 2024

Published on: 04/01/2024Updated on: 04/01/2024

We extend our best wishes for 2024. This year, we will celebrate our 30 years of commitment to the individual employment and domestic work sector. A commitment that remains strong as we still have many challenges to address! Before reaching this milestone, we offer you a review of the key moments of 2023.

Individualized support to secure employment

Our sector-specific career guidance and development consulting (COEPS) is growing and developing to be closer to the expectations and skills of current and future domestic employees. Thus, within the COEPS framework, our team takes the necessary time to review the person's background (professional and personal experiences, studies, etc.), their wishes for the future, thereby laying the foundation for a relationship of trust. The objectives are:

To help position oneself in a profession aligned with one's aspirations, experience, and capabilities thanks to our professional positioning tool;
To recommend a personalized pathway enabling the acquisition of basic skills and/or building skill developmen;
To prepare for jury presentation in case of certification pathways, and if the application is accepted by the eligibility commission.

A key role in the renewal of RPL

Last July, the State officially launched the vae.gouv.fr portal, thus implementing the work of restructuring the Recognition of Prior Learning. As the certifying body for the professional branch of individual employment and domestic work, we were at the forefront of this skills enhancement process that began in 2020 with the REVA experiment and concluded in June with the closure of REVA 2. Our expertise helped initiate the creation of a new function: that of pathway architect.

A continuously adapted training offer

Mandated by the professional branch of individual employment and domestic work, IPERIA has been supporting its professionalization policy for nearly 30 years. With their trust, we design and offer each year a training and certification offer adapted to the needs of (future) domestic employees and their individual employers. The 2024 offer is designed based on a new qualification architecture. Accessible through training or RPL, these qualifications work towards recognizing the skills of sector professionals. We are proud that they have been continuously registered in the National Register of Vocational Qualifications since their creation in 2009. And this remains the case for an additional 3 years.

Action at the European level

Europe has always been in our sights. Our expertise has continuously been enriched by exchanges with our neighbors, and we contribute to the sector's evolution within the EU. By leading or being involved in European projects, we tirelessly pursue the same objective: providing concrete solutions to families. The year 2023 was marked by two major events:

The MiCare project for the integration through training of women from immigrant backgrounds. It is characterized by an individualized pathway specifically designed and constructed with our partners and based notably on an assessment tool.
The 10th anniversary of the European Federation for Family Employment. We co-founded it and actively participate because the mobilization of several European funds and programs allows progress toward effective professionalization of the domestic work sector at the European level, responding to the needs of our current and future societies.

Action levers to attract new audiences

We experiment with and launch numerous initiatives to increase awareness of sector professions and bring more visibility and recognition to employees' skills. In 2023, we particularly invested in:

The LabMigration

This innovative project, led by FEPEM, aims to guide foreign-born individuals toward the individual employment and domestic work sector. Our commitment is reflected in the implementation of an integrative professionalization pathway and comprehensive support. This personalized pathway is based on a triptych: skills, French language, citizenship. After Marseilles, where the project was launched in 2022 and the experiment deployed since last February, new candidates began their pathway in autumn 2023 in Île-de-France.

Agreements with Pôle Emploi

IPERIA signed two regional agreements in 2023 with Pôle Emploi and FEPEM: in Hauts-de-France and Île-de-France. These tripartite agreements aim to support domestic employment and respond to individual employers' needs. They emphasize IPERIA's key role in promoting recognition, professionalization, and attractiveness of sector professions.

A common sector commitment

Cooperation helps us meet the challenges of employment and the attractiveness of professions with high societal value in the face of accelerating changes and evolving skill needs. This is why we move forward together to engage in innovative and fulfilling dynamics. We proved this on October 5th during a discussion day organized with the sector's professional branch. We provided answers and set perspectives. Our objective? That the millions of family assistants, personal carers, childminders and childcare providers, and their individual employers, can move forward side by side for the well-being of families, children, and dependent persons.