Day care

Municipal daycare centers and nurseries across Greece will have five years to comply with new regulations that were finalized last week.

There will be three transition periods for full compliance with the new regulations, starting with ensuring structural safety of all facilities within the next year, then compliance with mobile equipment over the next two years.

Parents with babies and toddlers have from June 10 until June 23 to apply for a spot at one of the daycare centers run by the OAED Manpower Organization.

In order to apply they should contact administrators at their nearest center, between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. from Monday through Friday.

SYRIZA’s seven-month reign has left the country (public) education sector in shambles, with the most prominent examples being a surge in the number of unfilled teaching spots — greater than the usual gap — an abolition of exam-entry secondary magnet schools and the slapping of a …23-percent VAT rate on the education sector!

Family and Social Policies Minister Ay?enur ?slam said daycares for elderly and disabled people would be established in order to make lives easier for families who look after them.