An end to the anxiety of parents who wanted to secure their place in the structures preschool education. At noon on Tuesday, the platform of the program “Promotion and support of children for their inclusion in preschool education, as well as for the access of schoolchildren, adolescents and people with disabilities to creative employment services” for the 2022-23 academic year was held. open.

The program, implemented with public and public funds, subsidizes some or all schools in public and private kindergartens and preschools, as well as education for children, adolescents and people with disabilities in KDAP (Creative Employment Centers). Income criteria apply to select children to receive a voucher, but there are no financial criteria for children with any form of disability.

Activating the platform on its website Hellenic Society for Local Development and Self-Government thousands of parents wait weeks to be able to draw up a family and financial budget for the next year. White smoke was observed with a delay (it is significant that last year the process began on July 19) and with some technical problems in the operation of the platform. It is assumed, of course, that over time the operation will normalize. Those who wish will have time to apply online until August 12, 23:59.

The program also subsidizes the education of children, adolescents and people with disabilities in creative employment centers.

At the same time, the budget this year has been increased in favor of benefited children. In particular, according to the announcement, “this year’s budget reaches 331.2 million euros and will allow for the inclusion of more children in the program, as well as an increase – for the first time in ten years – in compensation (by 10%) to cover the increase in costs and ensure the provision of quality services.” This year, for the first time, the program targets both mothers working in the public sector and parents with higher annual incomes of up to 42,000 euros.

However, at the same time that parents are applying for a place for their children in a municipal kindergarten, last week, thanks to the passage of a multi-bill, municipalities received another extension to submit certain supporting documents. legal functioning of active kindergartens, their nurseries and nurseries. Among the certificates there is a fire safety certificate. As, in fact, the responsible Minister of the Interior stated Makis Voridisthe compliance of the municipalities reaches only 50%, so the extension is mandatory.

“We are talking about the provisions of the Presidential Decree of 2017 (99/2017), which provided for the harmonization of the working conditions of public and private kindergartens”, Mr. Vassilis Salonidis explains “K”., President of the Association of Pediatric Nurses of Greece. “From the very beginning, we expressed our doubts about the deadlines set, as they were not realistic. The difficulty concerns the municipalities of large urban centers, which have many stations in old buildings that rent them.