Instruction. Childcare services, the numbers of the reopening
Milan, January 10 2022 – After the Christmas break, nursery and nursery school services restarted this morning, with around 30 thousand students enrolled throughout the city.
The ordinary timetable of 7.30am-16.30pm was ensured for the majority of the sections, but the strong increase in absences still led to an early exit at 13pm/30pm for several dozen sections.
In fact, 21 nursery sections (out of 249 total sections) and 87 nursery school sections (out of 852 total sections) were affected by the hourly contraction, as well as one spring section out of the 37 city ones. However, 4 nursery sections, including one in spring, were not reopened.
Today's contractions were necessary to deal with a significant number of absences among the staff: out of 3.200 educators on staff, over 700 were absent today for various reasons including certified illness due to Covid, fiduciary quarantine, lack of vaccination certification (currently 92 cases, approximately 13% of the total absentees), as well as for personal reasons.
“The data on absences and the consequent maintenance of services is monitored and updated daily - underlines the Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Education Anna Scavuzzo -, but it is clear that in this situation, in order to maintain the ordinary service as much as possible, it was not opening from 16.30pm to 18pm is more sustainable, even excluding Lombardy's entry into the yellow zone. I am aware that the suspension of after-school hours has been a problem for families who have no longer been able to count on this important support, but at the same time I would like to thank all the educational staff thanks to whom we are ensuring the ordinary service to the vast majority of girls and boys."
“At this moment - continues the Deputy Mayor - I believe it is more important than ever to continue with the vaccination campaign, as well as restore priority for workers in the school sector to have preferential access to swabs both for diagnostics and for returning to service after the illness".
Updated: 13/01/2022