Photo: Media CenterThe decision to suspend work was made by private kindergartens after the City announced a change in the method of transferring subsidies for children whose stay in private kindergartens is reimbursed by the City from the budget. This would mean that parents no longer receive money, but preschool institutions directly
The suspension of work was announced at the extraordinary address of the Association of Associations of Private Preschool Institutions in Belgrade. During the address to the public and parents, the president of the Association of Associations of Private Preschool Institutions in Belgrade, Milka Mihailović, stated in the Media Center that they did not make this decision lightly.
"The Assembly of the Alliance made, not an easy one, but at this moment the only possible decision to announce the suspension of work. It's the first time I'm saying this in my long career," expressed Milka Mihailović, president of the Association, emotionally, and added that the suspension was announced for December 1.
This decision was reached after the City announced a change in the way subsidies are transferred for children whose stay in private kindergartens is reimbursed by the City from the budget. This would mean that parents no longer receive money, but preschool institutions directly.
This change, as stated by the City, should facilitate and speed up the entire reimbursement process, but the Federation warned on several occasions that this way of working would endanger the work of kindergartens, because subsidies would have to wait 45 days. Due to the failure to reach an agreement with the City at today's conference, the President of the Association announced the suspension of work and explained the manner of its implementation.
"The suspension of work will begin with a delayed term of 96 hours about the time period, as well as the methodology of applying the suspension. The Assembly of the Council will inform its membership and parents directly, and the general public through public announcements in the media", the president of the Association explained the suspension at an extraordinary press conference.
We remind you that refunds for kindergartens are a solution introduced in 2015 by the city of Belgrade in order to overcome the crisis of chronic lack of places for children in maintained kindergartens. From then until today, there have been a lot of problems, but the announced suspension of work is the biggest problem that parents in Belgrade have encountered so far.
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Parents whose children go to private kindergartens will not only pay the difference in price compared to state kindergartens, but also an additional amount for every day the child is excused, for example due to illness. The director of the Center for Local Self-Government, Nikola Jovanović, said that in this way the practice of creating a price gap between private and state kindergartens continues, and the biggest losers will again be the parents who did not find a place in the state kindergarten, so they had to enroll their child in a private kindergarten.
