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2020-12-05T18:50:46.526Z


As the Knesset moves toward a possible dispersal, further postponement of the approval of the law regulations and their budgeting will cause children and parents suffering, and only ministers will continue to make empty statements without bearing responsibility


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The abuse of daycare children begins with the government's disparaging treatment

The Day Care Supervision Act passed in 2018, but the government procrastination continues.

As the Knesset marches towards a possible dispersal, further postponement of the approval of the law regulations and their budgeting will cause children and parents to pay a heavy price, and only the ministers will continue to make empty statements without bearing responsibility

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Yosef Jabarin

Friday, 04 December 2020, 16:12

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In the video: Extension of detention for a teacher from Ramat Gan who is suspected of abusing toddlers (Editing: Tal Reznik)

Almost every week, more and more creepy stories, pictures and videos are revealed: small children are thrown on mattresses, helpless toddlers are beaten and dragged on the floor.

It is impossible to describe in words the feelings of a parent who sends his children, who are less than three years old, to kindergarten, and discovers that they have found themselves in hell on earth.



The phenomenon of toddler abuse, which has become a real scourge of the state, was born out of the lack of tools for supervision and regulation in the field of education and care for children from birth to three.

Most of the frameworks are private, and their place is to discover that thousands of day care centers operate without the state and the authorities being aware of their existence, let alone supervision.



In the months since I was elected to chair the Knesset's Committee on the Rights of the Child, horrific cases of abuse have been exposed and many of which I have closely followed.

We have heard and seen parents recount, with a throat choked with tears, about their children who have been victims of criminal abuse for years, without knowing it.



The Committee on the Rights of the Child has worked hard and hard to bring about the enactment of the Day Care Supervision Act in 2018, following a legislative and regulatory no-man's land that poses a danger to too many toddlers.

But the committee members did not imagine the magnitude of the procrastination: despite the endless chatter of government ministers, the draft regulations of the Supervision Law were published for public comment only at the end of August 2020, after heavy parliamentary pressure exerted by the committee.



The reality in Israel reveals many years of backwardness in terms of appropriate early childhood care in relation to the Western world, and regulations published by the Ministry of Welfare are indeed a step in the right direction of taking responsibility for early childhood children.

The Day Care Supervision Act (Kindergartens for Births Up to 3) was passed in 2018, but it does not have much significance without the approval of the law regulations and their budgeting.

There are currently 23 supervisors of about ten thousand kindergartens, there is insufficient training for assistants and they have to take care of too many children.

The law regulations actually regulate the educational-therapeutic training courses for assistants, the inspections of the inspectors of the Ministry of Welfare in kindergartens, change and define the ratio of the number of children to each caregiver, provide training for first aid and more.

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Parents of children demonstrate outside court against kindergarten teachers suspected of abuse in Ramla, August 2020 (Photo: Flash 90)

It's time for the ministers to stop talking and start doing

In order to ensure the implementation of the provisions of this important law, budgeting is necessary.

These regulations should have been approved by the Knesset as early as October 2019, but government ministries have repeatedly dragged the issue out.

However, since the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs has published the draft regulations for public comment, about 10 months late, they have not yet been submitted to the committee for approval and in practice the government procrastination continues alongside the many statements.

When we are once again moving towards a possible dispersal of the Knesset, there is a grave concern about further delay in the implementation and approval of the regulations of the law.



Approval of regulations in the committee can be a turning point for preschoolers and their parents, with the key word being budgeting.

The budgets allocated to the implementation of the regulations of the law will determine whether it will fulfill its purpose: ensuring the peace of our children.

If the Ministries of Finance and Welfare do not budget them adequately, regulations will become a dead letter.

Ministers must not go out of their way to publish regulations, leaving parents and children alone again.



The situation also requires the involvement of all parties - the government, local government and the third sector - in order to bring about a proper level of supervision, and so that parents can finally sleep peacefully.

For too long the children of us all have been abandoned, and now is the time for the ministers to stop talking and start doing.

Parents and children do not need their words after the next abuse case to be exposed, but the regulations of the Supervision Act now and immediately.

Without their dedicated and significant government budgeting, and especially in the Corona period - all the beautiful words, big statements and important regulations have no meaning.



Yosef Jabarin is a member of the Knesset on behalf of the joint list and chairman of the Committee on the Rights of the Child

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