Camilla Weidinger and Martin Winther Larsen have a son Thomas, who was born in March two years in the past. And when he was only some hours outdated, he was placed on the ready listing for the establishments within the household’s hometown, Vestbjerg.
As a result of there may be competitors for the locations within the standard metropolis, as Nordjyske has not too long ago described.
Thomas will begin kindergarten in March subsequent 12 months. However the present ready listing for 3-5-year-olds reveals that there are 13 youngsters who can’t be supplied a spot in Vestbjerg within the interval from January to July 2025. The kids who can not get a spot in Vestbjerg might be supplied locations within the nursery faculty Troldegården in Sulsted, in accordance with the Pladsanvisningen.
The issue of lack of childcare is way from remoted to Vestbjerg. A number of cities which are profitable in attracting households with youngsters face the identical problem.
This is applicable, for instance, to Støvring, the place town’s kindergartens are full, and a brand new kindergarten is not going to be prepared till a couple of years from now.
In lots of municipalities there may be additionally a scarcity of day care employees, as it’s troublesome to recruit new ones – and on the similar time a big half of the present day care employees depart the labor market.
For some areas, evidently of their eagerness to draw households with youngsters they’ve ignored an necessary element: Making certain first rate high quality childcare.
In Vestbjerg, heaps have been subdivided and bought in a giant approach, and the city is rising. It would not take a crystal ball to foretell that extra households with youngsters might be born.
Councilor for the youngsters and youth committee in Aalborg Municipality, Morten Thiessen (Okay), additionally acknowledges that the municipality has not been far-sighted sufficient, however he additionally factors out that there are new daycare facilities on the way in which in Vodskov and in Nørresundby.
Nevertheless it doesn’t assist the present issues in Vestbjerg.
For a lot of, it might look like a minor inconvenience to drop off your youngster in a special metropolis than the one the place you reside. However for a household with youngsters, it would not take a lot to topple the logistical puzzle that has to go up 5 out of the seven days of the week.
On the similar time, it destroys one of many main causes for settling in a smaller area people: the group that’s already established in kindergarten.
Caring is a very important prerequisite for each mother and father to contribute to our welfare society by means of employment.
The municipalities should subsequently take the childcare problem severely and make sure that there are adequate locations for all youngsters – additionally when plots are being subdivided and bought on a big scale. It requires long-term planning and funding in order that households should not have to dwell in fixed uncertainty regarding their youngsters’s future.
2024-06-22 17:56:19
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