“Fiumicino and the Lazio Region: Concrete support for local families with nursery bonuses and new ISEE bands”
In 2024, the Municipality of Fiumicino obtained regional accreditation for the eight directly and indirectly managed municipal nursery schools and for the 2023/2024 educational year, the Lazio Region has allocated 11 million euros for the provision of vouchers service to families, aimed at reducing the costs of the attendance fee for the reception of children aged 3-36 months, at the accredited educational services of the Region.
“The accreditation procedure was complex but very important because today it allows the families of children who attend municipal nurseries to access the regional nursery bonus which has the objective, fully shared by us, of reducing the economic and social vulnerability of families of the territory. This will allow you to obtain a full refund of the fee or in any case a considerable reduction – declares the Councilor for Social Policies, Monica Picca. – Nurseries accompany the growth of girls and boys, strengthen educational and social pathways, combat inequalities at their origins and reconcile the lifespans of parents and in particular of women.”
The three-year regional program 2021-2023 had introduced the establishment of 10 ISEE bands to which the maximum fee payable by families for access to public educational services could be compared. For the three-year period 2024/26 the Region has established 10 new ISEE bands and has proportionally increased the threshold of the maximum fee, which the municipality is obliged to adopt.
“The Region intended to adopt a rebalancing by mediating between two opposing needs: equity in access for families and financial sustainability for Municipalities. The purpose of this provision is to make access to early childhood services homogeneous throughout the entire regional territory and thus cancel the differences in fees depending on the municipality of residence, guaranteeing many families the effective right of access to the service.” concludes the Councilor by recalling that the criteria approved by the council refer to regional law n.7/2020 which places among its aims that of “contributing to a better sharing of family care burdens with a view to increasing participation of women and men in the labor market”.
