Registration remodel for subsidized daycare centers announced

The Labor and Social Services Ministry announced on Wednesday that registration for subsidized daycare centers for children ages 0-3 for a arriving educational year will start in Feb 2018.

This was acquire news for relatives who until now had to wait until a months of Apr or May to register their children, withdrawal many relatives capricious as to if their children would be supposed into a horizon until a late summer months of Jul and infrequently even August.

As such, many relatives were forced to compensate nonrefundable deposits, infrequently totaling adult to NIS 4,000, to secure a mark in a private daycare core in a eventuality their child did not accept a mark in subsidized daycare.

Additionally, relatives who did secure spots in subsidized daycare systems could usually ask additional financial assistance after a start of a propagandize year.

The new remodel will see registration start Feb 4th by Feb 22nd during a cost of NIS 133 and relatives are approaching to be told if their child was supposed as early as May.

“Our idea is that in May during a latest relatives will be means to know if their children have a place in daycare centers and will be means to ask subsidies already before a start of a educational year,” pronounced Labor and Social Services Minister Haim Katz on Wednesday.

“This is how we give relatives certainty per a horizon where their children will be, and time to classify and accept a funding already in Sep and not after,” he said.

To date, some 120,000 children adult to a age of three, accounting for roughly a fourth of this age group, attend supervision supervised and subsidized daycare centers.

For a thousands of relatives whose children are supposed into a rarely sought after daycare centers, a supervision provides yearly subsidies totaling some NIS one billion.

Those children who are not supposed into subsidized daycares are placed in family caring or in private daycare centers, that are not subsidized and not supervised by a government.

In 2012, following recommendations by a Trajtenberg Committee to build additional daycare centers, a supervision authorized a bill of some NIS 1.2 billion toward their implementation, of that scarcely half was eliminated to internal authorities. Despite this move, usually a handful of new centers were built.

According to a labor and amicable services ministry, in a entrance year some 100 new subsidized daycare centers are approaching to open, enrolling some 7,500 children adult to a age of three.