Maloney fails to achieve the goal of government. PNRR For places in I am natural.. Aim to make sure One place for every three children Less than three years, already missed in 2010, appears fast away with the latest structural budget plan that revises commitments made downwards. A situation that hits hard. Southern Territories and Islandswhere the gulf with the rest of Italy is increasingly widening.
There are no places in nursery schools.
Despite initial promises, the Maloney government recently Revised downwards. Objectives of creating new jobs I am natural.. Provided for creation of National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Pnrr). 264 thousand new places. For the 0-6 years age group, but the no. As low as 150 thousand.
Now, with a new plan sent to the EU, the situation looks even more critical: At the national level 33% of the locations are objectively confirmed, but At the regional level Instead, the government seems content with one. 15% availability.
Indeed, in regions such as Sicily, Campania and Calabria, children have a right to access educational services. missingThe average number of places for children under 3 remains above. Below the target of 33 percent.
The disparity between North and South is confirmed, where, according to the latest Istat report:
- The availability of places for 100 children in the North East is over 37%
- In the south it dropped to less than 18 percent
Pnrr reduces the target by 33%
But what was the purpose of Pnrr? The plan was intended to guarantee more places in nursery schools, but it now appears to have failed. In spite of 3.2 billion euros With tenders and assignments due in 2021, delays and administrative issues have hampered the establishment of new nursery schools, as planned for the expansion of education services for children. Even the recently announced 30,000 additional places seem insufficient to meet the requirements.
The government had promised that the projects taken out of the Pnrr would be financed from national resources, but the reality described in the tables attached to the structural budget plan is very different. The deficiency And Resource recovery They risk missing the 33% target by 2026, pushing Italy further away from European standards and penalizing the most vulnerable segments of the population. A nursery bonus is of no use when there is a shortage of places.
The Crisis of Places in the Islands and the South: What Leap Has to Do with It
Finally, the cuts clash with the issue of Levels of Essential Performance (Lep), which is central to the debate on the nursery school crisis, particularly in southern and island regions where Lack of places This is a much more pronounced reality than in the rest of the country. With the latest revision of the Structural Budget Plan, the government has made a choice that marks a clear watershed in social policies for early childhood:Decreasing the level of lap For access to nursery schools, reducing the share of places available in southern regions to 15%.
Democratic Party Senators, Susanna Camuso e Simona Malpizzihas commented strongly on this decision, pointing out how this choice particularly penalizes the most vulnerable areas of the country:
Giorgetti is cutting. Refuge in the South. Unfortunately, this is written in black and white in one of the appendices of the Budget Structural Plan. The right to nursery school, in fact, will no longer be 33 percent at the regional level, but will drop to 15 percent, which contradicts the provisions of the 2022 budget law, which set the availability of places on a local basis at 33 percent. has been done For the purpose of removing Regional imbalances In providing nursery service.
According to the new plan, while the 33 percent target remains valid at the national level, in the southern regions it has been established that the government will only be satisfied with reaching 15 percent coverage. So for the opposition, this reduction is not only a question of numbers but also of it Political will. For Dem senators, it’s a very serious decision hidden between the lines: “Moreover, the choice of the Maloney government is a very serious choice. is hidden in the attachment.which shows how this government is not interested in promoting education and family welfare support services, especially in the most vulnerable areas of the country”.
The lack of resources for nursery schools in the South appears to be part of a wider strategy linked to the Calderoli reforms on differential autonomy. Camuso and Malpizzi also accused the government of undoing one of the few leaps outlined by the Draghi government, paving the way for new mandatory levels that are less ambitious and less money-intensive. : “The government makes money on children. of the south: In 2027, local authorities should have received a billion to enable services. But those resources will be cut, ending the single leap that was defined and financed thanks to the Draghi government.”
This choice would only widen the inequality between north and south, reinforcing the idea that Italy is moving towards a model of “differential autonomy”, where the right to education and basic services would become a concession linked to place of birth. is Camuso and Malpizzi conclude with a scathing complaint against the government: “With this unfortunate election the way has been opened for Calderoli reforms, seeing that the South is deprived of one of the few determined and guaranteed Leps. But we Knowing full well that this is the aim of the League, supported by self-proclaimed patriots and moderates.”