00:01En Belgique, un projet innovatif
00:04qui aide les parents à retourner à travailler,
00:06améliorer une bonne qualité d'enfance
00:08et offrir aux employés des personnes
00:10un travail stable.
00:30C'est parti d'accessible, affordable et bonne qualité
00:33d'enfance.
00:34C'est important pour les jeunes enfants
00:36qui veulent retourner à travailler.
00:38Le search for solutions est en cours
00:40et nous sommes ici, en Sofia,
00:42pour voir un exemple en action.
00:44C'est à l'heure de les enfants
00:51et de l'office pour Kristina Ruzdanova.
00:54Cette seule femme a cherché trois mois
00:56avant de trouver la personne
00:58pour la personne, Dmitar,
01:00et elle-elle va à l'école
01:02et elle va à l'arrière.
01:04C'était très difficult pour moi
01:06d'aller à l'amuser,
01:08d'abord, pour les personnes
01:10qui ont confiance à ses passions,
01:13et d'abord,
01:14pour faire la question
01:16de la société,
01:17d'accompagnement avec ce que le monde est.
01:20Dans les domaines,
01:22Kristina est décisive
01:23de prendre un nouveau travail
01:25à l'économie de l'Italien
01:26en Sofia.
01:38While Christina is at the office,
01:40her son receives one-to-one
01:42professional care from Galina Ilieva,
01:44who is happy to have this work opportunity.
01:59The project that offered Christina
02:01a child care solution is called
02:03Parents and Employment,
02:04and it addresses a very specific need
02:06here in Bulgaria,
02:08where only 22% of children under three
02:11are in early childhood education and care,
02:13compared to an EU average of 40%.
02:15The project meets the shortfall in nursery places
02:19by offering parents up to eight hours a day
02:21of free child care.
02:23It's financed from a €33.5 million
02:26five-year budget,
02:28which includes €28 million
02:29from the European Social Fund Plus.
02:33One of the most innovative aspects of the project
02:35is it not only offers mothers who want to work
02:38a free child care option,
02:40but also offers job seekers a chance to be hired.
02:43There's a steady flow of candidates too,
02:46both unemployed people and parents
02:48looking for child care.
02:50The Employment Office vets every case carefully,
02:53and then the matching process begins.
03:16The process is proving successful.
03:24Over 3,400 eligible families have signed
03:28child care contracts since the current project
03:30began in 2023,
03:32and 3,500 child carers have been employed.
03:37Offering accessible, affordable,
03:40and high-quality child care
03:41is also a means to reduce inequality.
03:44Brussels-based child care expert
03:46Christian Morabito says even the youngest children benefit.
03:50Evidence shows that gaps in skills
03:55appear early,
03:57before the child enters primary education.
03:59So providing these services,
04:01child care services,
04:02especially to poor children,
04:03is essential for them to reduce this gap,
04:05but also for parents,
04:07through allowing them,
04:09accessing the labour market,
04:10especially women,
04:11to reduce gap in income.
04:14Back in Sofia,
04:16and Galina is playing with Dimitar,
04:17who spends most of his summer days
04:19outside in the park.
04:32Then, at the end of the day,
04:34mom, Christina,
04:35receives a warm welcome home from work.
04:43Expanding childhood education and care
04:45is considered an economic,
04:47social, and gender equality priority in Europe.
04:49It's calculated that raising the employment rate of women
04:52could boost EU GDP by up to 1.7%.
