Agenda

The activities of local authorities in terms of social cohesion are based on the mobilization of many actors: elected officials, officers, social workers and users. Their collaboration guarantees the efficiency of social policies at the local level. This seminar will be specifically devoted to the resources these multiple actors mobilize on a daily basis. How should public concerted action in the context of the current distribution of skills be managed?

Based on local examples concerning housing and early childhood, this seminar will highlight different forms of collaboration. It will present the practical functions of local authorities in their relations with each other, in public policy areas in which their skills are shared, and in their internal functioning, which relies on the participation of actors with legitimacy and powers of action.

PROGRAM

3 p.m. - Introduction
Vincent Chriqui, Director of the Centre d’analyse stratégique  

3:10 p.m. - The impact of the distribution of territorial jurisdiction over the work of local elected and public officials

• Bernard Dreyfus, Professor Chair "Local Collectives", CNAM, General Delegate to public services mediation  (Defender of Rights)

3:30 p.m. - First illustration: housing policy

• Patrice Lanco, Inspector General of Honorary Equipment
  Laying out the issues regarding power divisions

• Alain Regnier, Prefect, Interministerial Delegate for accommodation and access to housing for the homeless or inadequately housed
  An example of cooperation around a tool: the  rental intermediation device Solibail

• Guy Potin, Executive Vice President for housing, Rennes
• Nathalie Demeslay, Rerspnosbile, housing services, urban community of Rennes Métropole
  An example of shared local governance: the agglomeration community of Rennes

Debate with the audience

4:30 p.m. - Second illustration: the politics of early childhood

• Julien Damon, Associate Professor at Sciences-Po, Science Advisor at the Centre d’analyse stratégique  
  Laying out the issues regarding power divisions

• Mara Maudet, Director of the Institute of Education and Citizenship Practices
  An example of cooperation around a single tool: with atypical nursing and childcare hours 

• Jose Pons & Marie-Claude Bouloy, Family Allowances Fund of Nanterre
• Dr. Xavier Belan & Julie Peupion, Maternal and Child Health Services, Council of Hauts-de-Seine
  An example of shared local governance: the Provincial Commission services for young children in the Hauts-de-Seine

Debate with the audience

5:30 p.m. - Summary and conclusions

Denys Lamarzelle, Director of Economics at the General Council of Côte-d'Or, author of "Relationships between elected officials and local employees" (Papyrus Publishing, 2011)

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