In future, a childcare allowance should relieve parents of the cost of daycare places in Switzerland. After the Senate, the responsible committee of the House of Representatives is also open to a new funding model. However, it wants to make the government more responsible. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The House of Representatives's Committee for Science, Education and Culture wants to extend the counter-proposal to the daycare centre initiative adopted by the Senate. In particular, it decided by 16 votes to nine to reintroduce the federal programme agreements deleted by the lower chamber into the draft bill, the parliamentary services said on Friday. + Why Switzerland’s daycare numbers are rising amid regional divides The House of Representatives committee also requested additional areas of funding. For example, measures to improve the pedagogical and operational quality of the programmes and to improve the compatibility of family and career should ...
