For many professionals, coercive control is still a new concept. Yet all caregivers should be familiar with it, in order to be aware of and understand domestic violence. This article, based on the experience of a nursery nurse, looks at the ways in which such violence can be identified, particularly during maternal and child protection missions.

Prevention of shaken baby syndrome exists, but it is still largely insufficient, particularly due to a lack of visibility. In a society where parents are often alone, under great stress and with a demand for perfection, how can these acts be avoided? A meeting with Cécile Morison, a mother and child protection nurse in the Isère region, who offers prevention activities for parents leaving the maternity ward, as well as for childminders.

Since 2015, the Gironde has been divided into nine territorial poles in which the Mother and Child Protection teams operate. As part of this restructuring, a new position of nursery nurse was created: that of pole relay nursery nurse. This link between the management and the field is innovative and aims to improve the coordination of work.

Châu Pham-Daubin and Anne Le Soudier are respectively a doctor in the Mother and Child Protection Department (PMI) and a nursery nurse in charge of the early childhood structures in Calvados, and are part of a dynamic team. Their missions are complementary and they work together for the well-being of children and their families. Their missions are complementary and they work together for the well-being of children and their families. From PMI consultations to the support of pregnant migrant women, through the harmonisation of childcare monitoring and staff training, they tell us about their daily lives.

Marked by the vote on the new departmental plan for children, the year 2021 is particularly rich for Céline Bachimont, technical advisor for early childhood and Mother and Child Protection (PMI) within the Calvados Child and Family Department. Her missions, working across the board with the departments and social action districts, enable her to have an acute knowledge of the population assisted by the PMI and, as a result, to participate in the implementation of innovative projects.

Since its creation in 1945, Mother and Child Protection (PMI) has undergone many transformations. Initially, after the war, it was subject to the imperative need to offer children real protection, and then it was built up by reshaping its principles of action in line with the various social and economic contingencies. Linked to the notion of the child\'s needs, but also to the major idea of prevention, the PMI has never ceased to adjust to the profile of families in order to provide them with an appropriate response.

During the first wave of the epidemic, current events have given pride of place to the hospital world, its difficulties and its successes. However, everything relating to maternal and child welfare (PMI) or the liberal practice of the profession has been almost non-existent. Yet these professionals remained mobilised throughout the confinement of the spring. Interview with Fabienne Grillère and Pauline Le Masson, two nursery nurses from PMIs in Grenoble.

Many children supported by professionals from the mother and infant welfare protection centre grow up in a plurilingual environment. Taking into account this plurilingualism provides better understanding of the relationships which the children establish with their environment. This can also help them to engage in a transgenerational transmission as well as in multiple cultural affiliations.

As the stay in maternity hospitals gets shorter, parents often feel helpless upon their return home. It is therefore necessary to identify resource professionals to help them on the continuation of the care pathway. The children\'s nurses from the mother and infant welfare protection service, a frontline service accessible to everyone, provide their expertise to meet the basic needs of the child and support the parents in the development of their skills.