REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO LAW 25 May 2004 68 REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO RULES ON SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN We the Captains Regent of the Most Serene Republic of San Marino Promulgate and publish the following law approved by the Great and General Council at its meeting on 25 May 2004 TITLE I Purpose 'and object of the law Art. 1 (Purpose) this law in accordance with U iversale Declaration of Human rights, the International Convention on Children's rights, the European Convention for the Protection of rights Declaration of the rights of Man and of Citizens and Fundamental principles of San Marino order, that the general principles which allow the opening and defines the requirements for the operation or the continuation of projects of social and educational services for children aged between three and thirty-six months and their families. These services are designed to promote well-being and harmonious growth of children and girls and to support families in their educational duties. In services for young children, the state guarantees and recognizes the right to the formation and development of every individual, it confirms the centrality of the child as the subject of the complex of social and educational activities aimed at promoting its global development orienting and enhancing the uniqueness , in view of collaboration with the family. Respecting the principles of subsidiarity and freedom of choice for families, socio-educational services for young children are provided by the State, private social and private, under their own initiative and through their social formations. Art. 2 (socio-educational services for early childhood) The socio-educational facilities for young children, s divided into: a. Kindergartens b. Supplementary services c. Innovative services The system of social and educational facilities is organized so as to ensure a plurality of offers, flexible and differentiated, appropriate to respond adequately to the needs of children and their families. The general principles governing the system are as follows: a participation of parents in verification of the activities with maximum information on educational projects and service management as a means of sharing educational choices. b) integration of the different types of services and cooperation between state and public entities and private operators; c) connection and continuity with dell'Infanzi School and cooperation with all social services; d) inclusion of disabled children as a right to social and educational; e) support for single-parent families; f) economic intervention of households to service management. The socio-educational services for early childhood poss not also be exercised in corporate form, in which case the shares or actions that need to be registered, can not be purchased or held by limited companies or by financial and trust companies. The sale of the majority or of the shares is subject to authorization of the State Congress; sale of equity of minority interests entails the approval of the State Congress. Art. 3 (Kindergarten) The kindergarten is an educational and social services for children aged between three and thirty-six months and offers a place of welcome and care, growth, socialization and development potential of affective, interpersonal, cognitive and child play. Occasionally there can be greeted kindergarten children who have reached the age of two months if there are special duly documented family needs. In relation to children's needs, the educational choices, parental work time and to local needs, may apply kindergartens nidoa part-time or mode of functioning asylum diversified nest for opening times, enrollment, attendance times , without prejudice to the development of specific educational projects at the different organizational forms. In the nursery is guaranteed the inclusion of disabled children or socially disadvantaged and cultural in implementation of Article 3 of the law 21 November 1990 n. 141 (Framework Law for the Protection of the Rights and the social integration of carriers of deficit); in which case the ratio Educator / Employee Nursery / child will be amended as indicated in the attached Regulations. Art. 4 (Integration Services) The State shall promote the activation of supplementary services to nurseries, diversified by structural methods, access, and frequency of operation, in order to ensure that children and their families a plurality of answers on the plan social and educational. These services
alongside the nest, are considered places with haracteristics educational, recreational, cultural and social gathering; They offer different solutions to the methodological and curriculum, structural and organizational, according to the principles established by this law. Supplementary services are aimed at: a. allow the diverse frequency during the whole day through the use of the spaces or the same structures of asilinido; b. facilitate the implementation of integrated public nurseries at nursery schools; c. favoring forms of educational continuity between kindergarten and kindergarten through the implementation of appropriate educational and training projects taking into account the educational policies of their respective sectors. The initiatives referred to in letters b) and c) are carried out in agreement with educational institutions in charge and while respecting their autonomy. Supplementary services are: • centers for children and parents; • The children's spaces. The children's centers offer hospitality to children and parents, along with their parents or accompanying adults, in a social context and game for children and adults to meet and communicate. The children's spaces have educational purposes and socializing and offer day care to children between the ages of twelve to thirty six months, entrusted to educators, for a frequency maximum of five hours a day, allowing a diverse rate in relation to user needs, according to established methods of use. The children's spaces differ from nursery part-time as they ensure timing and mode of operation smaller, not necessarily provide the canteen or necessarily specific premises for rest of children. The supplementary services can be located in the same structure, so as to allow full use and expand opportunities. Art. 5 (Innovative services) The State shall encourage the creation of innovative services such as: a) nursery schools or micro-nests within the workplace or in their immediate vicinity, for the treatment and reception of workers and children possibly of the children residing in the adjacent territory; b) Educator Family: Family nests organized by families, in individual or group, at your location or at that of educators specifically recruited. The Family Educator is an experimental service d be implemented by a one of the family home dwelling environment or for benefiting from the service. For the activation of this service the educator staff, in addition to possession of the qualifications specified in the law for access to positions of educator in services for early childhood, must be in possession of a specific training course. For the Family Educator the ratio should not be more than three children every educator. The families organized themselves into groups of two or three, in the children's age, to choose the same teacher who held the service at the address of one of the children, with rdato between the same families even in rotation, but with a periodicity not less than four months, to safeguard the stability of children's landmarks. Families engage in a regular private employment relationship with the educator and take themselves agreements on the organizational modalities of the service. The State must ensure the qualification of the Family Educator service through the following instruments: a. lifelong educator training, including participation in training initiatives in favor of ducatori other services for children; b. the supervision of the trial through qualified technical figures (pedagogical coordinator) also through agreements with private organizations operating in the area; c. promoting access of children, parents and educators to other supplementary services nursery; d. training / information of the families on issues related to raising children and in particular those of security and power. TITLE II operating authorization and accreditation of social and educational services in state-run or private Art. 6 (Obligation of respecting the functional and structural requirements) The opening and the management of Nurseries and any other socio-educational private or state service , it is subject to authorization to operate according to the rules set out in this law, regardless of their denomination. Public and private facilities to be opened or for the activity must satisfy the requirements laid down in article 15 and the attached Regulation.
These requirements relate the elements necessary to ensure safety of users and operators, as well as the service capabilities offered to discharge their functions. Art. 7 (Technical Committee of Socio-Educational Services) As part of the Institute for Social Security has established the Technical Committee of Socio-Educational Services. The Commission is composed by a psycho-pedagogic expert appointed by the State Congress for a term of three years which may be renewed, with the functions of chairman of an expert in socio-educational field, indicated by the Minor Service Manager - Department of Health, Social Security and Welfare , and also identified among the personnel employed by the service itself and one representative each of the Environmental Hygiene Service and the Office of Urban Planning. The Commission issues a binding opinion on the existence of functional and structural requirements established by this Law and the Regulations annexed to the opening of the Day Nursery and the temporary delay in the cases referred to in article 13. The Commission also supervisory tasks and control over social and educational services. Draw up a detailed report based on the reports of anomalies in the functioning of the services, to be sent to the Congress of State and the managing entities of the structures. It is for the Expert and the Expert in socio-psycho-pedagogical education dictate the guidelines of Pedagogical Guidelines which must adapt the Day Nursery in the preparation of the teaching program provided for in Article 15. The Commission also performs for the State Congress, the checks provided for in this title may be assisted by offices and bodies. At the Technical Committee has established the register of persons authorized to manage the social and educational services and accredited subjects. Art. 8 (Procedure for requesting the opening, transformation, extension and adaptation of socio-educational facilities) The legal representative of fund manager one of the structures referred to in Article 2 that it intends to open, convert or expand a socio-educational structure must submit an application for authorization to the Congress of State, textures, and the Secretary of State for Health, Social Security and Welfare. Applications for permits must necessarily black co: a. the indication of the managers; b. the location of the structure; c. the fundamental characteristics of the structure that the award to one of the types provided for in Article 2 .; d. the maximum number of children hospitable. The authorization is granted by the Congress of State, once the special investigation carried out by the Socio-Educational Services Technical Commission is satisfied that the facility is to fulfill the obligations imposed by current standards of construction and sanitation, both functional requirements and structural established by this law and the Regulations annexed provisions of article 21. Art. 9 (Accreditation) the State, in order to promote the development and qualification of the socio-educational facilities system in a perspective of subsidiarity, as provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 1 of this law, establishing the accreditation process by determining additional quality requirements than those required for the authorization to operate, uniforms for public and private services. Accreditation is granted by the State Congress, having heard the binding opinion of the Technical Commission, within 90 days from the date of submission of the application by the interested parties. Art. 10 (Requirements for the accreditation) the purpose of accreditation the various operators, as well as meet the requirements for the authorization of the operation of which the art. 15 must: a. implement or joining collaborative initiatives, where there are different services and entities public and private operators with the aim of creating a socio-integrated educational system; b. ensure the participation of families through articulated and flexible ways of meeting and collaboration; c. equipped with tools and methodologies to assess the appropriate service. Art. 11 (Regulatory Functions) The preventive tasks, inspection and control systems designed to ensure compliance with the current legislation are carried out by the Technical Committee of Socio-Educational Services. In particular, the supervisory intervention needs to be addressed to ensure the permanence of the conditions and requirements which have led to the granting of the operation and accreditation and updating on the basis of evolution with the same standards. The Technical Committee shall prepare an annual report on the supervisory and control activities
carried out, to be sent to the State Congress, the various operators of the facilities and to the trade unions. Art. 12 (Assistance in the event of non-compliance) In the case of verified non-compliance with the rules set out in this Act and the Rules and Regulations, the Technical Commission is required to issue the formal notice given the responsibility of the legal representative of the structure so that he may at eliminate violations within a period not exceeding 30 days. In case of default, the violations are accertat through the minutes in which are determined: • the nature of the offense and the circumstances of time and place; • the rules to which it is contravened. The minutes shall be immediately notified to the competent authorities and the person concerned. Art. 13 (Suspension and withdrawal of operating) The Congress of State, on a proposal from the Commission of Social and Educational Technology Services may, as appropriate, to suspend or withdraw the authorization for the establishment of the structure. As a precaution, also the Technical Commission may suspend the activity of the structure. The suspension takes place if the violations confirmed involving injury to users and operators, and if the manager warned previously, has not been repaired there. The revocation takes place when it is established: a. the loss of the requirements and when the manager, whose authorization has already been suspended, has failed to comply within the prescribed period; b. that serious operating defects and serious violations of laws and regulations result in significant damages to users and operators; c. the recidivist behavior in any such suspension. Against the measures of suspension and revocation, they are allowed legal remedies under Law 28 June 1989 n. 68. TITLE III General characteristics of the area and the structure Art. 14 (Target Area) The Day Nursery and the supplementary services must be located in an accessible area, far from sources of pollution and noise, industrial waste, from high traffic locations and preferably in an area equipped to green. The services referred to above shall also be equipped with an outdoor area for children. In urban areas of new settlement and total renovation of action should be favored integration and continuity between nurseries, kindergartens, primary schools and health and social services, including through the design relating to the system of mobility, accessibility and green. Art. 15 (Requirements for the authorization for the operation) All social and educational structures to obtain the operation authorization must comply and must comply with the following requirements f nzionali and structural: a. have a pedagogical project of its objective and the programming of educational activities in compliance with the guidelines referred to in Article 7, as well as the organizational arrangements and service operation; b. have the figure of the pedagogical coordinator on the basis of the provisions in Article 19 of this Law; c. compliance with applicable laws on construction, gienico-health and fire prevention; d. removal of architectural barriers in relation to the accepted user characteristics; is. possession of furniture, fittings, furnishings and fnishes such as to ensure functionality of use, safety and suitable living conditions, as well as use of non-hazardous materials, which do not emit harmful substances, nor in normal conditions, nor in critical conditions; f. users with similar characteristics compared to bisogn we expressed. In the case of several characteristics, they must be compatible with each other also in relation to the activities of the structure; g. human resources involved in the offer of services professionally qualified as provided in Article 16; h. applying to employees, the local regulations in the professional reference profile; the. Application of the numerical relationship between educators and children registered as indicated in Annex Regulations; j. adoption, if they are provided one or more meals, dietary scales approved by the Pediatric Service of the Institute for Social Security and purchasing procedures of foods that ensure compliance with the legislation in force; k. insurance coverage of staff and users; the. target of a time share of personal work, amounting to a minimum of 36 hours per year, for the upgrading of, the programming of educational activities and for the enhancement of the participation of families. The exercise of the activities and the offer of the services protected by this law are, also,
subject to compliance with the requirements specifically defined with the attached Rules for each type of structure. TITLE IV Staff of the socio-educational and pedagogical coordination Art. 16 (Personnel Qualification and requirements) In compliance with the requirements set by the State for the establishment of professional profiles, the operation of socio-educational services for young children is provided by the staff educator and the personnel involved in Day Nursery where required. Educators of supplementary and innovative services, must have the same obligatory qualification for educators of Nurseries, also in order to ensure mobility between services. The educator staff used for the provision of Nursery service must possess the following qualifications: 1. University degree 1st level of Educator; 2. degree in Pedagogy and Educational Sciences; 3. degree in Primary Education provided you have held within the 2006/2007 academic year; 4. Diploma of: Infantile Community Assistant; Technician of Social Services: provided that achieved by the 2002/2003 school year; 5. in addition to academic qualifications provided for in paragraphs 1,2,3,4, educators who follow children with disabilities are required training and competence, certified by the frequency to appropriate training courses. In the event of unavailability of personnel with the qualifications listed in the previous paragraph, for the figure Educator expected in the various socio-educational facilities, the titles of study: High school diploma to socio-psycho-pedagogical address are recognized as valid, Institute of Science, Assistant to Children, Community Manager provided that achieved within the school year 2002/2003, to be sought by public rankings Labour Office. In accordance with the provisions of Law 13 February 1980 n. 10, the Institute for Social Security promotes regular compulsory courses of professional training, qualification and refresher courses at all levels, coordinating the duration and frequency with uptime of Nurseries. Persons handling Nurseries must be licensed by the Lower School and a special training course. Those who have completed the special training course of the entrance into force of this Act, may also register with the qualification of compulsory education in relation to school age. Art. 17 (Personnel Tasks) Educators have skills for the reception, care, development of emotional, relational capabilities, the child's cognitive and games, to the relationship with the families and the organization and functioning of the service. Persons handling Nurseries performs tasks of cleaning and tidying of the environments and materials to ensure comfort and safety for children and collaborates with the educator staff at the maintenance and preparation of teaching materials and to the proper functioning of the service. It also performs the tasks related to the preparation and distribution of meals in accordance with the Pediatric Service. There will be regular staff meetings with the pedagogical coordinator referred to in Article 19 for setting and verification of educational work and the elaboration of methodological and operational guidelines. Art. 18 (Collegiality and teamwork) activity of personnel is carried out using the group work method and the principle of collegiality, in close collaboration with families in order to ensure continuity of educational interventions and the full and integrated use of the various skills of the service providers. A working hours of the staff may be intended for training activities, organization and group in the interests of flexibility outside of contact with users, while respecting the needs. Art. 19 (Pedagogical Coordinator) The pedagogical coordinator, which is responsible for the pedagogical coordination of the nests, is the professional figure holding graduation to address socio-pedagogical or socio-psychological degree or possess the same qualifications required for staff educator with at least 5 years of specific service in the public or private sector. The pedagogical coordination is the appropriate instrument to secure the link between education staff and the wrangler Nurseries where provided in accordance with principles of coherence and continuity of operations at the educational level, and the consistency and efficiency in the organization and management plan, and competes on the floor the technical definition of guidelines and criteria for development and qualification of the system of services for children offered. The pedagogical coordinator also performs the tasks of guidance and technical support to the work
operators, also in relation to their permanent training, promotion and evaluation of the quality of services, as well as monitoring and documentation of experiences, innovative services testing, connection between the educational, social and health. TITLE V Financial rules, transitional and final Art. 20 (Borrowing Costs) The spending necessary for the implementation and management of the state-run Asili Nido is posted on a special section of the State Budget. The financing and the operation of state-run Asili Nido contributing parents, who for them, by paying a monthly fee determined by the Board of Directors of the Institute for Social Security. The line can be deducted as a deductible expense in accordance with Law 13 October 1984 n. 91 and subsequent amendments and additions. Likewise the line of Nurseries privately run is deductible in accordance with the preceding paragraph. Art. 21 (Regulations) The structural requirements, plant engineering, furnishing and organizational requirements for the various services provided by this Act are also contained in the annexed Regulations. Art. 22 (Transitional provisions) The provisions of Titles II and III of this l ading apply to facilities for the socio-educational services for early childhood of new construction. To facilities already in operation at the date of entry into force of this Act, the State Congress in order to adapt the structures themselves with the provisions of this Law grants the maximum period of three months to the functional requirements while for structural and building requirements the term maximum of eighteen months. Art. 23 (Final Provisions) By 31 December 2004, the competence of Socio-Educational Services for early childhood will be transferred to the Secretariat of State for Public Education in the educational sector of the relevant Department. Until the transfer of the above, the skills regarding Nurseries remain with the Minors' Service - Department of Health, Social Security and Welfare. Similarly, the staff employed in the performance of the service remains alldipendenze Institute for Social Security and governed by the provisions of Law 19 September 1993 n. 106 except as provided for in Article 16 of this law on qualifications, which is therefore immediately applicable for the private sector, while the public sector during the formulation of the relevant rankings for the 2004/2005 year to According to Law 17 July 1979 n. 41. They are also without prejudice to the agreements signed with the trade unions, before the entry into force of this Act, in materi of numerical relationship - Educator, Cleaner / Child - the staff on duty in As Nido them. Simultaneously with the transfer mentioned in the first paragraph it should be reviewed the skills that this law assigns to ISS organed institutional bodies and the Secretariat of State for Health, Social Security and Welfare. The figure of the pedagogical coordinator expected to 'Article 19, for Asili Nido state will be established as independent of organic position; meanwhile the functions which the law attributes to the pedagogical coordinator are taken by the Executive Minor Service. At the end of the pedagogic project preparation referred to in Article 15, for partial exemption from the provisions of the third paragraph of Article 7, until 31 December 2004, the guidelines presently governed by the Management of Minor Service shall not be considered and followed by Asili Nido state. Art. 24 (Entry into force) This Law shall enter into force on the fifteenth day following that of its legal publication and repeals any rules contrary to it. Within 90 days of entry into force of this Act, the ISS Board of Directors, upon proposal of the Executive Service will issue a Minor organisational- Rules management of state Asili Nido, to be sent to the Technical Committee of Socio-Educational Services, which contains the following aspects: - opening hours; - User frequency; - Calendar; - Admissions and input periods; - Arrangements for user enrollment and training of ratings criteria as well as its rankings; - Straight. Similarly, private operators of the Crèche facilities will have to communicate the aspects above provided to the Technical Committee referred to in Article 7, at the time the facility and whenever changes are introduced, making them known to users, with appropriate forms of knowledge. Our Residence, this day of 31 May 2004/1703 dFR Captains Regent Paolo Bollini - Marino Riccardi
Annex RULES IN SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL FIELD OF SERVICES FOR CHILDREN PART I structural, plant and furniture 1. urban planning and location of the facilities The area of ​​socio-educational services for early childhood must be easily accessible. The structure should preferably be divided on one level. 2. Features and types of spaces All spaces of socio-educational services for early childhood, interior and exterior must meet and maintain the characteristics trutturali, plant, furniture and games, such as to protect and promote the well-being and knows ute of children and workers. 3. Security, hygiene and environmental features, welfare The structure intended to socio-educational services for early childhood can not be located on the first basement, except as provided for local service by the way of the kindergartens in paragraph 2.1 of this Regulation. All the areas of socio-educational services for early childhood, internal and external, must ensure the requirements indicated in letters c) and d) of Article 15. They must also be guaranteed the following requirements: o proper disposal of liquid waste, solid and gaseous, encouraging the separate collection of waste; or safety in use: the internal and external structure of the nest, the furniture and the games must be such as to minimize the risks of accidents; or health and environmental well-being: the service must be guaranteed, respiratory health, smell, sound, visual, microbiological, allergic, electromagnetic and environmental radioactivity; in particular the equipment, fixtures and furniture and materials must be adapted to the different ages of the children's activities, as well as the professional needs of the operators and the participation of parents and must meet the requirements of health and non-toxicity; or spaces, equipment and furniture shall be consistent with the number and characteristics of the children's ages and needs connected with the conduct of the activities planned specifications. o For safety with respect to intrusion or theft is in the outdoor areas and inside must be provided adequate solutions. PART II nursery 1. The quantities of the Standard structure for daycare if aggregated with other non-educational services, or school, should have a separate entrance; for facilities aggregated at school or educational services the input can be unique. The structure must ensure the direct relationship with the outside world, it is placed in more nterreno and be targeted on one level. In the case where it is not possible to realize a structure on one level it must however ensure that each functional minimum unit (section) is placed on a single plane. 2. The essential spaces in the nest areas for children and those available to adults must have features that allow flexible use in relation to the educational project. The essential spaces are the following: a) an input compartment fitted with a filter environment. If access to each section takes place exclusively from outside, provision should be made also in this case a filter environment for microclimatic protection of the internal spaces, it must however avoid the passage through the premises of other sections; b) minimum functional units (sections) for each group of children; c) common areas for all children; d) space operators, general services and spaces available to parents; is. external area. 1. Ratio of covered area and capacities The definition of net usable area for the nursery, including part-time, must take into account the areas specifically earmarked for children's activities and those intended for general services, including iv destined spaces to adult activities. This surface is detected in 9.5 square meters per child instead. 2. Features of the outdoors and criteria for the organization The outdoor areas intended for children must preved r: a. a paved area b. areas equipped with furniture and diversified materials for play activities; c. areas equipped only to green. Areas with destination to parking and vehicular traffic should be kept separate area for children relevance. The outdoor area must be fenced and exclusive use of children, except in cases of planned use, and using specific pedagogical project, from families with children. Outdoor spaces for children to be organized and equipped as an educational environment, allowing the free exploration, the game structured, motor and symbolic, in continuity with the interior spaces, in order to respond to the needs of different ages and
different evolutionary size of the child and should be sufficient depending on the total number of children. Relevant areas outside the structure, not the children's use, must be provided with suitable fence to ensure the safety of children. 1. Criteria for the organization of interior space The interior spaces of the nursery must be organized, furnished and equipped with minimum reference unit consisting of the functional section. The minimum unit is complemented by other spaces, destined to free play, studios and workshops or other activities, identified in the reference educational project. These spaces are used in rotation or simultaneously for individual activities and large or small group, even by children belonging to different sections. In a center for children, including the nursery and kindergarten and possibly more social and educational services, common areas to all children may be used by each of the communities hosted in the pole. These spaces will be counted for the purposes of achieving the required standards specifically for children's activities in the nursery. 2. Definition and organization of functional units The section is the spatial unit and organizztiva minimum the nursery. The section should be divided into zones based on the developmental needs of children, the possibility of organizing various groups, as well as the differentiation of activities. The sections are divided by homogeneous age groups. It is also possible different organizations, based on specific educational projects. The crèche facility can be articulated on piùsezioni in relation to the capacity of the same structure and the age and number of children enrolled. Each section includes spaces adequate to perform the following functions: a. the game and the individual and group activities; b. the rest; c. the meal; d) personal hygiene. Local hygiene destines children must be equipped with an average budget of health not feriore to a vase and a place sink every six children with reference also the various ages. 1. General The General Services consists of: a. personnel services, including local dressing and personal hygiene; b. one or more laboratory space for operators and parents, with preparatory functions and preparation of teaching material, meetings and workshops, archive and administrative activities, documentation and library; c. the kitchen, in conformity with the rules or international standards; d. where possible a space for the dining area staff; is. a room or wardrobe space for pul ta linen, use, possibly as ironing; f. a room or a space used as a laundry and dirty laundry storage, sized and fitted according to the type of service provided; Laundry services can be commissioned outside, but within is provided for a deposit for dirty laundry; g. one or more technical areas; h. a local or one intended to adequately protected storage space for cleaning materials and a storage room for equipment intended to. 1. Tables and dietary meals in protecting children's health, Nurseries adopt dietary scales approved by the Pediatric Service of the Institute for Social Security. Relating to foods for infants and young children, you need to give priority to the use of organic products and to ensure the exclusive purchase of products which do not contain genetically modified organisms. The meals may be partially or totally outside of the products only structure for older children per year and, in that case, it must be provided for a kitchen equipped terminal, in relation to the number of children and operators, to act ensure the maintenance of the quality of the food and the distribution itself, through procedures agreed with the production center meals identified by the managers. 2. Accommodation The minimum and maximum receptivity of Nurseries is fixed respectively in 16 and 60 seats child. In view of the variation noted between children enrolled and attending the real Nurseries, managing entities, subject to compliance with the numerical ratio that will be calculated on the number of children actually enrolled may register a greater number of children to the receptivity of the structure to the maximum extent of 10%. 3. Micro -nidi The micro-nest differs from kindergarten only because it provides the warmth of a smaller number of children. The minimum and maximum receptivity is fixed respectively in 6 and 14 sleeping-child, without prejudice to the possibility, even in this case, to decrease or increase
these indices to the maximum of 10%. For indoor and outdoor areas should use the same standards and criteria for the Day Nursery. PART III supplementary services 3.1 Spaces Children The structure of children's space has a maximum receptivity of fifty children. The outdoor spaces must have the features provided for Nurseries. The definition of the minimum net usable area must take into account two distinct indexes: 6.5 square meters per seat child regarding spaces specifically dedicated to children's activities; sqm 2 to place child as regards the general services. The spaces and activities are to be organized for groups of children, on the basis of the educational project, in relation to age, residence time within the same structure and be structured so as to allow a fixed space for the reception of different groups and spaces properly equipped to carry out educational activities. 3.2 Centres for children and parents Each child care center and parents must have a receptivity that allows different users full participation in gambling activities, meet and communicate specifically organized for children and adults. The definition of the net usable area must take into account two separate indices: 5.5 square meters per user as regards dest spaces born to activities of children and adults 1.5 square meters per user as regards the general services. A user is every child. Spaces must be articulated in order to provide for: common areas for activities addressed jointly to children and adults and an area of ​​exclusive use of adults; spaces for general services. The general services must include at least the dressing room for the staff, premises for hygiene, broken down by operators, external adults, and children. The premises for hygiene intended for children must be sized in the average standard of a budget of health no less than one of every 10 children adequately attr zzati with reference to different ages. PART IV organizational requirements 4.1 numerical ratio between staff and children enrolled An adequate ratio of staff and children is one of the main elements that determine the quality of services. To qu'm the reason this Regulation cover a range of criteria to consider in the determination of it, taking into account the nature of the service offered, the characteristics of the structure, the number, age, the characteristics of children welcomed, as well as the times the opening of services. With particular reference to children's age and the time of the opening of the services, are set out below the numerical relationships between children, educator staff and personnel involved in Day Nursery where required. The affections of determining the numerical ratio, a child means every child enrolled. The numerical relationship between educators and children is as follows: No more than five children per educator, for children aged between sections three and twelve months Not more than seven children per educator for the sections of children aged between twelve and twenty-four months not more than nine children per educator for children's sections between the ages of twenty-four months and thirty-six months. For the service center for the children and parents are allowed changes to the numerical value according to each specific educational project. As for the personnel involved in Day Nursery, where required, it must be distinguished according to whether the cooking, cleaning, dressing are carried out by internal staff, or through the use of contracts with private companies or otherwise. In the event that all activities are carried out by internal staff, the average ratio of persons responsible for the Day Nursery and children can not exceed 18 children per employee. This ratio may change if the above activities are carried out in whole or in part by external staff. 4.2 Replacing the educator staff and integrating disabled children in order not to compromise the ratio between educators and children and taking into account the presence of both should be ensured the necessary replacement of staff be made by means of images of the same qualification and professional profile. To facilitate the process of integration of d sible for children, or who are in special situations of distress and in relation to the number or severity of cases in the nursery sections in which they are incorporated can be established to reduce the number of members , or in addition or alternatively, the presence of an educator aid to the section. Index RULES ON SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN TITLE I
purposes' and object of the Law Art. 1 (Purpose) Art. 2 (socio-educational services for early childhood) Art. 3 (Kindergarten) Art. 4 (Integration Services) Art. 5 (Innovative services) TITLE II Authorization to operation and accreditation of social and educational services at the state or private management Art. 6 (Obligation of respecting the functional and structural requirements) Art. 7 (Technical Committee of socio-Educational services) Art. 8 (procedure for the application to open, transformation , extension or adaptation of socio-educational facilities) Art. 9 (accreditation) Art. 10 (Requirements for accreditation) Art. 11 (regulatory Functions) Art. 12 (Assistance in the event of non-compliance) Art. 13 ( suspension and withdrawal of operating) TITLE III General characteristics of the structure and the Art. 14 (target Area) Art. 15 (Requirements for the authorization for the operation) TITLE IV staff of socio-educational and pedagogical coordination Art. 16 (personnel Qualification and requirements) Art. 17 (personnel Tasks) Art. 18 (Collegiality and teamwork) Art. 19 (pedagogical Coordinator) TITLE V financial provisions, transitional and final Art. 20 (Borrowing costs) Art. 21 (Regulations) Art. 22 (transitional provisions) Art. 23 (final provisions) Art. 24 (Entry into force)