The regional council has approved, on the joint proposal of the councilors for Schools Simona Ferro, for Construction Marco Scajola and for Social and Health Policies Giacomo Giampedrone, the 2024 programming of the “National Fund for the integrated system of education and instruction services”. The objective is to promote, consolidate and strengthen the integrated system of education and instruction from birth to six years of age.
Liguria has been allocated by the Ministry of Education just under 5 million euros (4 million 929 thousand 457.54 euros to be precise) that the Region, with this act, will allocate to the various municipalities. “We continue to support the Ligurian municipalities with funds that can concretely improve their network of educational services – declares the Councilor for Schools Simona Ferro -. It is a complex program, the result of joint work, which aims to leave no one behind by guaranteeing, and strengthening them where lacking, adequate facilities for all children from 0 to 6 years of age in our region”.
“Through this measure we intend to concretely guarantee greater safety and quality of the structures that host children from 0 to 6 years old and promote their educational path – underlines the regional councilor for Building Marco Scajola -. These are expected and necessary interventions that will certainly give an important contribution to the Municipalities in the path of improving the Ligurian school system. From 2015 to today, as the Liguria Region, we have invested over 200 million euros to carry out more than 500 interventions”.
“With this act, we will strengthen the integrated system of services for children in our region – explains the Councilor for Social and Health Policies Giacomo Giampedrone -. Consolidating and strengthening the services dedicated to children means not only investing in our future, but also offering our children and their families quality educational support that can also respond effectively and more widely to the needs of reconciling work and private life”.
The funds can be used to finance the following types of intervention:
a) new constructions, building renovation, restoration and conservative redevelopment, functional and aesthetic redevelopment, mechanical and fire safety, energy saving and usability of buildings owned by public administrations;
b) share of the management costs of early childhood education services and nursery schools, taking into account their costs and qualifications;
c) continuous in-service training of educational and teaching staff, in accordance with the provisions of the National Training Plan referred to in art. 1, paragraph 124 of Law 13 July 2015 no. 107, and the promotion of territorial pedagogical coordination, for which the approved regional programming provides a specific allocation of €221,825.59. Finally, this intervention provides for a quota of €788,713.21 to be paid directly to accredited private early childhood socio-educational services, to spring sections and to private private schools, calculated proportionally to the number of children attending each branch of the integrated system.
