Day care centers move to the Ministry of Education: "An important journey for our children"
Increasing the number of caregivers, expanding the supervision of day care centers, educational training and the addition of NIS 600 million for the construction of kindergartens, these are just some of the reforms of the early childhood transition to the Ministry of Education.
Minister Yifat Shasha-Bitton, who presented the move, said: "There will be no magic, we are going on a journey"
Yael Friedson
05/01/2022
Wednesday, 05 January 2022, 17:32 Updated: 18:12
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In the video: About 300 daycare workers blocked roads in Tel Aviv (Photo: Roni Kanfo)
Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Bitton presented tonight (Wednesday) the reform of the early childhood transition to the Ministry of Education. The main principles of the reform are increasing the number of caregivers, expanding supervision of day care centers, educational training and an additional NIS 600 million for the construction of kindergartens. "For years they talked about the importance of this move and wanted it but politics did not allow it to happen."
"The transition from early childhood to the responsibility of the Ministry of Education is a great, important and significant historical move. It will allow the education system to create an educational and systemic continuum from birth to age 18, tailored to the child's needs at all stages of education, growth and development," said the education minister.
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In charge of early childhood in each local authority (Photo: Flash 90, Moshe Shai)
The reform does not include nurseries, and defines day care centers for seven toddlers and over.
The move includes an addition of NIS 240 million anchored in the budget base of the Ministry of Education, and will include significant steps to upgrade the day care system, including changing the standard of care within day care to deepen care and personal treatment of toddlers, doubling supervision standards from 54 to 105 and adding more One hundred certified external controllers with a master's degree in the education professions - for the purpose of enforcing and controlling the educational content, the safety of the dormitories and supervising the enforcement of the Cameras Law, which requires the installation of cameras in the dormitory, in accordance with the law.
Training, guidance and accompaniment for the therapeutic-educational staff in the day care centers, which include a 220-hour course in the field of care therapy, a 22-hour first aid course, a 14-hour course in safe management, and four hours of pedagogical guidance and professional guidance within the day care center. New day care centers.
Shasha-Biton (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
Day care centers have been suffering from severe staffing shortages for a long time, so recruiting more staff seems to be a significant challenge.
Minister Shasha-Bitton commented on this and said: "We are going on a journey, there will be no magic, it is true that there is manpower, but we give horizons to the caregivers who will come to the system, it is tools, security and ability, we will improve their working conditions." Ministry of Finance".
Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman stressed that the importance of improving the working conditions of the assistants: "My wife is a teacher by profession, and I remember when she worked at a daycare center on Hanurit Street, I have no doubt that if there is anyone who needs to improve working conditions and wages it is daycare assistants."
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