Preschool care for second and all other subsequent children is to be free of charge from September 2008, Mojca Skrinjar, the director general of the Directorate for Pre-School and Primary Education at the Education Ministry told a press conference on Thursday.
The ministry proposes the subsidised pre-school care in order to increase the attendance at kindergartens. Changes to the pre-school education act are to be made as well, according to which children are first to be enrolled into the local kindergarten, and could only later transfer to another. This is to prevent parents enrolling their children into more than one kindergarten at the same time, Skrinjar said.
In December 2006, the non-parliamentary Youth Party proposed amendments to the pre-school eduction act under which kindergartens would be free of charge for all children. Kindergarten fees are levied according to household income. However, the system has been criticised for being prone to "creative accounting" by some parents and varying amounts of subsidies by individual municipalities.
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