Use. This sector is sounding the alarm: 200 positions are vacant in Toulouse and Occitanie
Through Anthony Assemat
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In recent weeks, France has faced an unprecedented labor shortage in many sectors. Among the most famous, include the hotel and catering industry, road transport and even the medical sector, hospitals are failing to fill all of the vacancies.
“The association cannot overcome all the problems”
Another sector, less publicized, is experiencing “an unprecedented shortage of qualified medico-social professionals”: that of disability. It is the Unapei network, which brings together associations defending the interests of people with intellectual disabilities and their families, thus sounding the alarm bells.
“The Occitanie region is facing a shortage of medico-social professionals who endanger people with disabilities. Despite all the actions put in place (recourse to temporary work, training, appeal to other associations, etc. ..) the associative sector cannot, on its own, overcome all the problems “.
In Toulouse and in our region, the federation of associations indicates that 191 positions are currently vacant in the establishments managed by him, with great difficulty in recruiting.
Consequence, according to these professionals: “Support is sometimes reduced to the strict minimum for lack of personnel, forcing families to take over! An additional burden for family caregivers who are already at their wit’s end ”.
A rally in front of the prefecture
To carry this fight, Unapei started an online petition, which had been signed by more than 77,000 people, Sunday December 12, 2021. Thursday December 9, a rally was held in front of the prefecture of the region, in Toulouse, to alert the population and the public authorities on this shortage and denounced “The lack of recognition of medico-social professionals”.
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