Varied menu for schools and kindergartens from 2018
The state will offer more money for the children's feeding in schools and kindergartens. The authorities want to allocate 2,40 lei more for each children's menu. The announcement was made on Thursday in the Parliament plenary, within the auditions according to the kids feeding.
''The cost of the kids menu will raise with 2,40 lei for each kid and 1,60 lei for a 12 hours program. Parent's contribution will be of 0,8 lei'', said Igor Sarov, the general secretary at the Ministry of Education.
Pesently, the state contribution on children's feeding varies between 15,30 and 18 lei. Also, from the next year, the contribution for the schools' menu will be of 8,80 lei.
The Government also announced it wants to identify a new formula to count the salaries of the employees of the kindergartens.
''A 200 kids kindergarten has just a cook who prepares the food three times a day, fives days a week. His salary is 1 120 lei and his assistant has 1 110lei'', said Elena Botnarenco, PCRM deputy.
''The salaries of the teachers, cookers and nurses are small, but the Government is working on a new salaries reform for all the categories'', said Igor Sarov, the general secretary of the Education Ministry.
In the Parliament was proposed to modify the organizational procedure of the auctions according to the purchasing of the products for schools and kindergartens.
''We proposed to register the sessions of the auctions, especially, the moment with the opening of the envelope with the participants'', said Viorel Morari, said the chief of the Anti-Corruption Prosecution.
The scandal according to the children's feeding in kindergartens and schools started on November, 2016, after there were conspired many schemes of phishing the auctions for the products that are used for children's feeding. The economic agents who were wining the auctions were giving altered products to the children. Five persons in this case were convicted and other 19 are still investigated.