Social mediation: a new standard

The 2016 XP X60-600 standard, which provides guidelines for activities relating to social mediation, is set to evolve into an NF standard. The standardization committee has been reactivated, to listen to all the professionals.

Night watchmen, women’s associations, neighborhood organizers… So many professions and functions require social mediation skills. For a long time, social mediation has lacked a frame of reference providing guidelines for 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. A standard made by and for professionals.

Five years on, this experimental standard is set to become a “real” standard, approved in the NF collection. ” This will enable us to analyze feedback from structures that have applied it, and to prepare an updated version,” comments Fatma Bensalem, project manager for AFNOR Normalisation. Today, AFNOR is launching this update, with the support of the Agence nationale de la cohésion des territoires (ANCT) and the Secrétariat général du Comité interministériel de prévention de la délinquance et de la radicalisation (SG-CIPDR).

Social mediation: professionals at the standardization table

If you work in the social mediation sector, now’s the time to get involved. In fact, the standard is drawn up with all the various interested parties, and in particular :

• the clients who will be using it (local councillors, social landlords, transport companies, etc.);
• Employers of social mediators (social mediation networks, local associations, neighborhood associations, etc.);
• State representatives (SG-CIPDR, DGCS, DGALN, ANCT);
• professional training players.

A first meeting of the standardization committee bringing together these professionals will be held by videoconference on March 26, 2021. Tomorrow’s standards are being written today… and certainly not without you!