Waiting lists for daycares are getting longer and longer

More children are going to nurseries, but there is a significant shortage of staff in child care. As a result, daycare waiting lists are becoming longer and longer. This confirms the organization of the parents' interest, Boink, after reporting this in the AD. In some places, children have been on the waiting list for more than a year, especially if they are to be placed on Mondays, Tuesdays or Thursdays.

Boink observes that the shortage lies mainly in the Randstad. "Of course, the Randstad has more pressure, but Groningen also has waiting lists, and of course the cities are jumping on it," says President Gjalt Jellesma van Boink

Lists of waiting do not can be rectified only with more staff. Springer, director of the Kinderrijk childcare organization in Amsterdam and Amstelveen. "I could open three additional branches if I look at the application, but I can not find people for that."

Grandmothers and grandmothers

Many child care centers in this personal region. "We try to be an attractive employer and we also offer the opportunity to train unqualified students, but if that's enough, I do not know," Springer says.

Long waiting lists force parents to be creative. Where a place was often on Wednesdays or Fridays, these parts of the day also fill up faster, Springer notes. "And there are hardly any foster parents, so they are falling back more and more on informal care, grandfathers and grandmothers, who are actually our biggest competitors but they do not always have the time. "

"We are back to the 2008 level," said Jellesma van Boink on NPO Radio 1. "And the cynicism is actually: during the crisis, parents found the daycares unaffordable and there were a lot of posts vacant, so that the parents improvised. it is economically full of sun, as far as the economy is concerned, and at the same time you see the same phenomena. "

The parents themselves called

Therefore, Boink calls the cabinet to intervene in the custody of children." There is only one message: the government, you must keep this stable funding, make sure there is regularity and peace. "According to Jellesma, it is then up to the employers to make child care attractive.

Demand for child care has increased significantly during the past year, but the number of employees does not keep pace with this pace.At the time of the economic crisis, many teachers changed their profession

which means that parents sometimes have the question of to know if they want to stand in front of a group.Parents sometimes offer parents a place in another day or another place, allow employees to work more hours, train their own students or immediately offer a employment to trainees