[For a positive outlook on child protection, even in times of crisis]

The health and social crisis linked to the COVID-19 shows the limits of a welfare state that is concerned to include care in its actions and struggles to invest in preventive public policies. The latter would surely have made it possible to live the pandemic differently. In the field of child protection, the preventive nurseries and their actions for the benefit of families were able to maintain a link with parents during the first confinement. This is the case of the establishments of the association Enfant Présent, which has created a parental phone support platform.