Coronavirus, government assesses aid to families after school closes. Bonetti: “Hypothesis for babysitting vouchers and leave for parents”

To help families cope with the closure of schools for the coronavirus emergency, the minister for the family Elena Bonetti announced that the government is studying extraordinary measures. “I am thinking about support possibilities for the costs of babysitter with vouchers“Said interviewee from “Circus Maximus” on Radio Capital, “these are proposals for which economic evaluations are underway. Even grandparents who are so precious in welfare of our society and today must be protected, so also give the opportunity to avoid too much infection between children and grandparents, with extraordinary leave for parents. These are measures that will have to be activated as of now ”. For these interventions, added the minister, EU support will be asked: “Europe has been asked for funds and the expenditure it needs must be put in place to support families,” he said recalling that “we already had a baby- voucher. sitter, which had not been reintroduced in the budget law “.

A solution also confirmed by the deputy minister of the economy Laura Castelli: “I have already spoken to the Minister of Economy”, he wrote in a post on the Blog of the Stars, “and the norm is being defined: it is a question of allowing one of the two parents to take time off work, without losing a euro salary, to assist minors at home from school. If both parents are forced to work, it may be necessary to pay for a babysitter. The rule we have in mind goes to solve this problem, without downloading the days not worked on the employer. The state will take care of paying the parent who stays at home. ”

Then arriving at Palazzo Chigi for the Council of Ministers, Bonetti added: “I brought my proposals and will report them: there is the will to accompany families in this emergency. Now is the time for answers. It is not about making announcements but about taking the most effective measures. There are already families that have been dealing with restrictive measures for some time, we tried to accompany them with smart working, for example “.

After the announcement of the closure of the schools, on the evening of March 4, he had been the same president of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana to ask for measures to help parents. “We have advanced to the government,” he said in the daily meeting with journalists, “the request to allow at least one of the two parents to be able to stay with the children for those families who do not have the opportunity to entrust them to other people. I hope that the yes is there for all the requests we have made, which are common sense for the support of citizens, the economic structure and health aspects “. Then answering a question he said: “The response has been positive from the government.” For the vice president of the Lombardy Region, Fabrizio Sala one system could be that of “parental leave, to allow a parent to stay at home with refreshments, pending the reopening of schools”.

In the interview with Radio Capital, Bonetti also denied the news circulated in the past few hours that the scientific committee would not subscribe to the decision to close schools and universities: “It does not correspond to the truth that the scientific committee had given the opposite opinion on the suspension of lessons and it has not been reported to us. It is clear that we must avoid contact methods and closeness of people and reorganize social life, do not cancel or block it ”.

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