Slide1: CHILDCARE SYSTEMS
Project @CCEDE
Tallinn, 3-4 April 2006
Slide2: Starting Point @ccede Project
Slide3: @ccede Project
Budget 2.9 m€ Territorial sphere 8 Municipalities around Madrid city
Industrial areas
400.000 inhabitants
DP Composition
Slide4: Starting Point THE CHANGES WHICH HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN SPAIN OVER RECENT YEARS HAVE BROUGHT AN INCREASE IN THE DEMAND FOR CHILDCARE SERVICES Massive incorporation of women into the workplace, bringing about a deflection from childcare
Predomination of the nuclear family model (family made up of a couple and their children).
Greater frequency of single single-parent families
Both partners working away from home.
Progressive importance of parents and the early socialisation of children
Lack of coordination between work and school times.
Very long Working days: from 9 a.m. to 7.30/8 p.m., with a break for lunch between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Distance from home to work.
Inmigration and demografic increase
Slide5: Starting Point EUROSTAT April 2005”reconciling work and family life in the EU25 in 2003
Slide6: Conclusions SPANISH LEGISLATION, ALTHOUGH PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE, CONTINUES TO BE LIMITED
IN ORDER TO COVER THE LIMITATIONS OF OUR LEGISLATION AND TO SUPPORT THE CONCILIATION OF WORK AND FAMILY LIFE FROM PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPHERES, AREAS OF SUPPORT FOR WORKERS NEED TO BE CREATED, FUNDAMENTALLY THE SETTING UP OF NEW RESOURCES FOR CHILDCARE
Slide7: @CCEDE
Global integrated approach
Small local pilot solutions Transference of results Equal Innovation @ccede Project
Slide8: Small local pilot solutions @ccede Project
Slide9: Small local pilot solutions Very long working days
Long distances to working centers
Main conclusion and proposal:
Workers, specially those with family responsabilities, do appreciate more each year actions from managers oriented to improve the quality of their working and free time.
Pilot programs among companies (HR Dept), Trade unions and municipalities for, training, information, new ways of organising flexible working time and flexible child care services, should be the begining of the project. Study on formulas in the working world and in-house reconciliation policies
Slide10: Small local pilot solutions Un-equal home tasks sharing
Sensitize
To educate in equal values
Empowerment workshops For children /
For parents /
For educational and child care workers
didactic units and group activities
Slide11: Small local pilot solutions Not enough care services Flexible and part-time work Progressive importance of early socialisation for children Lack of coordination of school and work times New approaches and models of child care in companies, schools, municipalities and industrial parks
(early waking up women) (Telecare) Child care centers in industrial parks Time extension in public schools.
Transference of results: project Amplía DONNAS MADRUGADORAS
Slide12: @ccede Project INPUTS Occupational and entrepreneurial training Entrepreneurial promotion
Help for starting up OUTPUTS 3 companies and 1 local services cooperative.
2 companies for the extension of services in centres
1 free municipal extended service
3 EEI management companies for business environments
Consolidation of 15 entrepreneurs
Creation of 43 new jobs
Creation of 450 new childcare places
New services for 298 families
Slide13: @ccede Project
PALABRAS MAYORES S.XXI, S.L.
Professional activity: implementation of cultural and leisure facilities for senior citizens.
Started: March 2004
Staff: 4 persons, all women and company partners
TELECARE
Professional activity: home-based childcare service
Started: September 2004
Staff: 7 persons, 100% women.
PALABRAS MAYORES
SIGLO XXI
Slide14:
SERAP S.L.L.
Personalised Care Service
Professional activity: home-based social services.
Started: March 2004
Staff: 4 persons, 100% women
COTAAE S. Coop.
Cooperativa de Torrejón de Ardoz de Auxiliares de Enfermería
Professional activity: home care service for dependent persons
Started: January 2003
Staff: 14 persons, 100% women.
@ccede Project SERAP S.L.L.
Slide15: @ccede Project
DONNAS MADRUGADORAS
Professional activity: extended timetables for childcare services: “Los Primeros del Cole” (The First in the School) and “Juegos y Meriendas” (Games and Snacks).
Started: September 2002
Staff: 7 persons, 100% women
CANTEEN
Professional activity: canteen and study area outside of school times in Secondary Schools.
Started: September 2004
Staff: 4 persons, 100% women
MEJORADA DEL CAMPO MUNICIPAL LEISURE CENTRE
Professional activity: free municipal service for extended childcare services
Started: January 2004
Staff: 9 persons, 100% women.
DONNAS MADRUGADORAS
Slide16: @ccede Project
ADETS, Educación Preescolar para Parques Empresariales
Professional activity: Preschool Education Centre located in a business area.
Started: September 2004
Staff: 7 persons, 100% women
“SOL” Preschool Education Centre
Professional activity: early childcare centre
Started: December 2004
Staff: 2 persons, company partners.
“3 COLORES” crèche
Professional activity: first cycle infant education centre
Started: January 2003
Staff: 2 persons, company partners.
Slide17: From the @ccede Project to the Amplia project Good Practice transferred in Action 3:
Extension and creation of services for dependent persons
WOMEN'S BOARD
REGION OF MADRID AMPLIA PROJECT
Slide18: Amplia Project Equal @ccede REGION
OF MADRID
European Social Fund EXTENDED TIMETABLES REGIONAL BOARD
FOR WOMEN AND EMPLOYMENT
AND EDUCATION BOARD START OF THE PROGRAMME IN THE
REGION OF MADRID The Women's Board through the Operational Programme
Integrated Goal 3 implements a collaboration program, the results of which
are:
Training of unemployed women
Promotion of conciliation of work and family life
Extended number of places due to increasing number of users who
can access the services
Extended timetables in some infant schools.
Generation of new employment. Transfer
Slide19: Amplia Project Mixed Employment Training Programme for Women in Childcare Services (0 to 3 years) To improve the qualifications of people involved in childcare
To promote the creation of new economically accessible services for the care of children from 0 to 12 years
To extend childcare coverage for 0 to 12-year-olds, improving the possibilities for employment of women who assume family obligations GOALS
Slide20: Amplia Project Structure and duration (4 months) TRAINING
UNIT
PRACTICAL TRAINING UNIT
ORIENTATION UNIT An “Infant Education Auxiliary” course will be imparted, lasting 150 hours.
Each training course will have 80 hours practical training, made up of daily two-hour sessions. Training will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Infant Schools or other extended service areas: leisure centres or during extended school hours.
There shall be orientation, professional information, business training and technical assistance throughout. Moreover, there shall be at least one group session lasting five hours during the training unit. Suitable participants
JOB OPPORTUNITIES OR GRANT: €300
Slide21: Amplia Project TRAINING UNIT
Infant Education Auxiliaries 150 hours Competence units To prepare, develop and assess formal and informal educational projects
To prepare, develop and assess the activities destined to the development of habits for autonomy and basic care needs. CONTENT Progressive psychology
Health and personal autonomy
Infant education didactics. Planning and organisation of educational practices
Infant education didactics. Methodology
Elements of educational practice
Employment Orientation
Equal opportunities
Environmental awareness module
Slide22: Amplia Project PRACTICAL TRAINING UNIT
IN INFANT SCHOOLS 80 hours Goal Extended timetables in Infant Schools and
Child Facilities in the Region of Madrid From 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Children between 16 weeks and 3 years, whose
Mothers and Fathers can justify the need
for the service given their work situation A coordinator and a tutor:
teacher/tutors (qualified Higher Technicians)
of Infant or Junior Education 8 participants in practical training Timetable Aimed at Organisation of
each Unit
Slide23: Amplia Project PRACTICAL TRAINING UNIT
IN LEISURE CENTRES AND EXTENSION OF
SCHOOL OPENING HOURS 80 hours Creation of leisure centres and extended timetables
in Primary Education Centres Two hours, depending on demand Children whose parents require support
for the conciliation of work and family life A coordinator and a tutor:
Number of participants in practical training,
depending on the number of children to attend to Goal Timetable Aimed at Organisation of
each Unit The municipality behind the
programme creates
a personalised service
for the needs of its
citizens.
Some municipalities have
opted for the creation
of leisure centres for
single-mother families
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