In December 2022, the kindergarten corporations Espira, FUS and Norlandia filed a lawsuit towards 105 municipalities, in addition to the state on the Ministry of Schooling, to get authorized clarification concerning the legality of the present subsidy observe, the three write in a press launch.
The requirement was that the subsidies for personal kindergartens for the years 2020–2023 and the rules governing this needs to be declared invalid. The personal kindergarten operators imagine that the regulation is in battle with the legislation.
On Friday, the Oslo District Courtroom handed down a judgment within the a part of the kindergarten lawsuit that offers with the state’s accountability and the validity of the regulation on the allocation of subsidies to personal kindergartens.
– Demanding
The lawyer for the personal kindergarten operators says they don’t seem to be stunned that the decision was this fashion within the first occasion.
– We disagree with the judgment, however it’s demanding to convey such a principled case towards the state within the district court docket. The personal kindergartens have been ready that such a principled lawsuit towards the state should proceed to the Courtroom of Attraction and probably all the way in which to the Supreme Courtroom for remaining authorized clarification, says lawyer Saida Begum.
She says they assume the decision is weakly justified. She additionally believes that the district court docket has utterly disregarded their presentation of proof associated to the systematic underfunding of personal kindergartens.
– It additionally doesn’t bear in mind the significance the equal therapy precept has been given by the legislature by way of the kindergarten settlement in 2003, and which was confirmed by the Supreme Courtroom in 2021, she says.
– Critical scenario
Norlandia Barnehagene’s director Kristin Voldsnes says this is a vital subject for all personal kindergartens as a result of the complete sector is in a really severe monetary scenario.
– We have now the identical necessities for staffing, high quality and dealing circumstances as municipal kindergartens, however we’re paid much less. If this discrimination continues, many personal kindergartens will quickly go bankrupt, says Voldsnes.
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2024-06-30 00:15:05