Free nursery schools "for the vast majority of Italian families" starting from 2020 January XNUMX, and not from September, as previously mentioned. This is the promise made on Tuesday by the Minister of Economy, Roberto Gualtieri.
In detail, the intervention developed by the Government is divided into two increases:
- by 1.500 3.000 in euros per year for households with Isee under 25 thousand euros;
- by 1.500 2.500 in euros for those with Isee from 25 thousand to 40 thousand.
For this chapter of expenditure, the government has allocated a maneuver 2,8 billion euros to be used in the next three years.
“Free nursery schools are a very important measure – said the number one of the Treasury during a hearing in the Senate Budget Committee – not only from the point of view of welfare and equality but also from the point of view of the support for female employment and social mobility".
According to Luigi Federico Signorini, deputy general manager of the Bank of Italy, "the effects of the bonus for nursery schools are potentially significant", but "the choice of linking him to Isee could discourage the job offer of a second income earner, especially near the thresholds that determine the amount of the amount: all the more so as the fees that families pay for nursery schools are already modulated according to the ISEE”.
Istat data certify that the ratio between available places and potential users in 2016-17 was on average equal to 24%, "much below the 33% target set by the European Council to favor the reconciliation of family and working life", concludes Signorini.
According to a document presented by the Parliamentary Budget Office, on nursery schools “it emerges marked territorial inhomogeneity of the benefit currently paid", both with reference to "the rate of coverage of the bonus with respect to resident children under the age of three", and as regards "the amount of the bonus paid".
In fact, it goes "from the maximum coverage of 29% in Valle d'Aosta to the minimum level of 11% in Campania and Calabria and from a maximum disbursement of 651 euros per user in the Marche to a minimum disbursement of 426 euros again in Campania" , continues the Upb.
