SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, September 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Parliament of the Canary Islands has rejected a Non-Law Proposal (PNL) from the VOX Group in which the public Administration is urged to establish a ‘nursery voucher’ that allows Canarian families to freely choose the nursery school that best suits their needs. needs regardless of their economic or social circumstances.
In the initiative, defended by deputy Marta Gómez, the Government of the Canary Islands is also urged to carry out during the current academic year all the necessary legal and budgetary measures to ensure free early childhood education for all families that require it.
Marta Gómez indicated that the average cost of a daycare is between 298 and 340 euros per month and families face an increasingly difficult return to school every September due to the economic and social crisis, a problem that makes it difficult for parents to invest part of their economy in the education they want to give to their children, one of the fundamental pillars of society.
Thus, the deputy defended free childhood education from 0 to 3 years for Canarian families and that its cost be assumed by public administrations, since “we cannot assume that no Canarian stops being enrolled in school due to lack of resources.” .
For this reason, the proposal of the VOX Parliamentary Group proposed facilitating a ‘daycare voucher’ that would allow Canarian families to take their sons and daughters to those early childhood education centers of their choice, with the aim of promoting both work-family conciliation and birth rate.
Deputy Miguel Yonathan Martín (CC) shared that early childhood education must be extended to all families that require it, but rejected the application of a school check without taking into account the social and economic circumstances of the families because that means “chronizing the inequality”.
Representatives Sonsoles Martín (PP) and Melodie Mendoza (ASG) followed the same line, understanding that “there is nothing more unequal than treating everyone equally”, as well as representative Raúl Acosta (AHI), who He stated that the proposal presented by VOX is “unviable and impossible.”
Finally, Carmen Hernández (NC-BC) stressed that this NLP is “tremendously unfair” because it is intended to pay for the place for families with resources, so she appealed to comply with the provisions of the strategic plan from 0 to 3 years, while socialist deputy Marcos Guillén said that the spirit of the proposal “is very good” but “very poorly presented.”
