Social mediation: the standard is set to change

Night watchmen, women's associations, neighborhood leaders... These are just some of the professions and roles that require social mediation skills. Social mediation has long lacked a reference framework providing guidelines on the profession, its implementation, organization, training, and monitoring of activities. A first step was taken with the publication of the voluntary standard XP X60-600 in 2016. This standard was created by and for professionals.

Five years later, this experimental standard is set to become a "real" standard, approved in the NF collection. "This will enable us to analyze feedback from the organizations that have applied it and prepare an updated version," comments Fatma Bensalem, project manager for AFNOR Standardization. Today, AFNOR is launching this update, with the support of the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion (ANCT) and the General Secretariat of the Interministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalization (SG-CIPDR).

Social mediation: professionals at the standardization table

If you work in the social mediation sector, now is the time to get involved in the work. The standard is being developed with all the various stakeholders, in particular:

• the sponsors called upon to use it (local elected officials, social landlords, transport companies, etc.);
• employers of social mediators (social mediation networks, local community associations, neighborhood councils, etc.);
• state representatives (SG-CIPDR, DGCS, DGALN, ANCT);
• vocational training stakeholders.

An initial meeting of the standardization committee bringing together these professionals will be held via videoconference on March 26, 2021. Tomorrow's standards are being written today... And certainly not without you!