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Financial assistance for extra-family childe care
Procedure evaluation
Summary
• The number of enclosures that need to be attached to a C application could be reduced. A whole
series of appendices are required on the application form, although in most cases they must only
be provided if they are available. We recommend that this fact be made clear on the form and
that the list of appendices that should be attached to the application is restricted to the minimum
set out in the Ordinance. Finally, it should be considered whether two separate application forms
should be used for further training and for coordination projects; this would simplify matters
somewhat.
• Flow of information from the FSIO to the cantonal authorities: The FSIO should ask the cantonal
authorities whether they would like to be better informed about issues and developments concerning
financial assistance and in what particular areas. Moreover, the FSIO should ask them
whether they would like a meeting to be organised once a year.
• The financial accounting system could be simplified. During the survey a number of agencies
said that they would like the statistics provided by the FSIO to include automatic calculation functions.
Since in the meantime it is possible for the agencies to submit their own statistics and they
no longer have to use the forms provided by the FSIO, this recommendation should only be taken
up if the agencies continue to use primarily the attendance forms supplied by the FSIO.
Broader aspects
During the survey of the implementation of the programme aspects were mentioned by various players
which concern the measures themselves rather than the implementation of the programme.
These remarks are given below for further consideration.
• At present financial assistance is available representing a maximum of one-third of the effective
annual expenditure for further training and one-third of the cost of projects aimed at improving the
coordination or the quality of child-care facilities. In most cases the actual sums paid out are relatively
low and, according to the agencies, are not worth the work involved in putting together an
application file. For this reason it should be considered whether the level of financial assistance,
at least for further training, could be raised.
• The facilities are often run by volunteers and accordingly in some cases drawing up a concept for
a child-care centre may well be too difficult a task for the staff. In order to improve the quality of
the information submitted to the FSIO (and thus to reduce the time needed for processing applications)
local authorities or local authority groups should be urged to set up advisory offices to
help agencies draw up a concept and put together an application for funding. Financial assistance
from the Confederation could be provided to get such offices up and running.
• Through new legislation the 6-year financial plan required at present could be reduced to a
4-year plan. This would lead to greater compatibility with the financial assistance allocated by local
authorities. Whether such a change would mean less work for the agencies that apply for
funding remains to be seen, since the main problems concern providing evidence of funding for
the start-up phase.
• In rural areas child-care facilities cannot always fulfil the minimum requirement for funding of 10
places. This is a structural problem. The survey revealed that it cannot be solved by reducing the
minimum requirement for new facilities. The experts that were questioned agreed that 10 gene-
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