City council wants more money for early childhood education
The Winterthur city council wants to increase the annual contribution to early childhood education by CHF 240,000.
Playgroup in a kindergarten in Winterthur – the city council wants to invest more money in the promotion.
Photo: Marc Dahinden
In the city of Winterthur, small children from disadvantaged, burdened families are to be given even better support in the future. To this end, the city council applies to the city parliament for a framework credit of CHF 750,000 annually, which corresponds to an increase of CHF 240,000.
As the city council reports, the aim of the early support is to identify families with preschool children from economically and socially disadvantaged backgrounds as early as possible. Continuous support should make the transition to kindergarten and school easier for them. For the schools, this should lead to a relief.
Specialist department since 2010
In Winterthur, there has been a specialist department for early support since 2010. This is operated in cooperation with the city and the cantonal office for youth and careers advice, Andelfingen-Winterthur office.
In addition, the city of Winterthur makes contributions to private sponsorships that provide offers for early support. These include various playgroup clubs, the “Family Strengths” club for the “step:wise” home visitation program and parent-child meetings, the family center and the low-threshold parent education program “Spi+El-Zeit”.
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