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Day care centers will reopen next Monday, May 18, but what could be good news for store owners, employees, parents and children, could be a big problem after all. It is that the indication that the schools are having is that there will be very few children who will return. This could even be a good thing, as it would be a way of easily guaranteeing social distance, but the implications of this parental decision are serious: schools are forced to withdraw employees from layoffs, re-assume full wages. But many parents continue to refuse to pay tuition.
Susana Batista, president of the Association of Nurseries and Small Private Education Establishments, is very concerned about this situation. “There are very few children who will return next Monday (May 18). Most daycare centers will receive five or six children and some establishments already know that they will have no one,” he said. “There will be few nurseries that will have half a dozen children.“The conclusion was drawn after consulting with the approximately 90 institutions that are part of the association.
The problem even has to do with the fact that the institutions will have to assume the total costs of the personnel again, something that until now was protected by the layoff regime and is no longer. “The law requires daycare centers to be opened, even if they do not have children, and this is very complicated because the institutions will be forced to remove people from the ‘dismissal’.”
If schools are reopened and parents have enrolled children, it would naturally be an obligation to resume enrollment. But things are not so linear. “The problem is that parents don’t want to accept the option to pay the full tuition again.Remember, until now most parents have paid only part of the monthly fee.
New operational measures
“A set of good practices” that “will allow all activities for the harmonious development and maintenance of affections, but with rules,” was the way in which the Director General of Health, Graça Freitas, defined this Wednesday, May 13, the DGS document with guidelines for prevention and control in day-care centers, family day-care centers and child minders.
The Director General of Health trusts that the nurseries will not be difficult to fulfill, among which are measures of preparation before the opening of nurseries and other general indications that include babysitters.
Regarding the organization of spaces, the document establishes that, either in nurseries or child minders, they must “guarantee a reduction in the number of children per room”. “Children and staff should be organized in fixed rooms” and “schedules and circuits should be organized to avoid crossing between people.”
Regarding the organization and activity of children, the guidelines indicate that the Physical distance and hygiene measures must be maintained whenever they are at naps, meals or tables, but “without compromising the normal functioning of recreational-pedagogical activities”.
Furthermore, and “whenever possible”, objects should not be shared between children. If this is not possible, they should be disinfected between uses.
In one of the last points of the general measures of the document, the DGS establishes that “all employees must wear a surgical mask appropriately” and that “all space must be disinfected”, according to DGS rules, with special attention to the surfaces that depends on the children. You can view the full DGS document here.
