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Some childcare centers in the Netherlands have had to terminate current contracts with parents due to staff shortages. This has been confirmed by the branch organization for childcare BK after a message from RTL Nieuws. Due to the staff shortage, the reception centers can no longer meet the quality requirements.
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jvhSource: BELGIAN
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Many dozens of children can no longer be cared for, says Emmeline Bijlsma, director of BK. “It is still very little out of the total of 823,000 children, they are incidents, but the parents are at a loss.”
The organization has also warned against making reception much cheaper, as stated in the coalition agreement. “Then you get even more questions. We can only meet that if there is a program to help us with that.”
Reception centers will no longer be expanded, although there are now 10,000 more children to receive than last year. There are also waiting lists. “We try to prevent all of this with all our might, we always want to be ready, as we are now during the lockdown,” said Bijlsma.
There may be something to be said for lowering some quality requirements, believes the director. “But it is a serious profession, you guide children in their development, the requirements for this are rightly high.”
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