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Stockholm City Councilor Isabel Smedberg-Palmqvist (left) calls on parents to keep children attending preschool at home during the Christmas and New Year holidays. Stock Photography.
Pressure on preschool staff has skyrocketed along with rising sick leave during the fall, according to the city of Stockholm. An appeal is now being sent out to parents to keep their children home over the Christmas holidays.
The escalating spread of the infection has led to an increase in sick leave among staff at preschool centers in the city of Stockholm. Stockholm City Councilor Isabel Smedberg-Palmqvist (left) is now calling for parents who have the opportunity to let their children stay home over the Christmas and New Year holidays.
– Sick leave has increased among our employees during the pandemic and during the fall. This means that healthy and capable employees are heavily burdened, says Isabel Smedberg-Palmqvist.
All parents with preschool-age children in the city of Stockholm will receive the email with the appeal, which Smedberg-Palmqvist comments as an “unusual measure.”
“For those who don’t have to”
– We have no other means to turn to than an appeal. At this difficult time, I think we must dare to take unusual steps, like this one, to handle the situation, says Smedberg-Palmqvist.
She continues:
– Of course, those who work on holidays, for example, should be able to drop their children off at preschool. This appeal is for those who can leave their children at home and do not have to leave them at preschool.
Recovery
The Council of School Citizens emphasizes that preschool and extracurricular centers must be able to remain open in the future, and for that, staff must have the opportunity to recover, which has been requested by many employees in recent times.
– I really hope that this appeal will take effect and that parents who may have their children at home for the holidays, but who thought they should go to preschool anyway, will think again, says Isabel Smedberg-Palmqvist.
The city of Stockholm is not the first to make such an appeal. In Karlskrona, the municipality called in November to keep preschool children at home over the Christmas and New Year holidays, according to SVT.
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