Early childhood education | The equality obligation will be removed, the ministry announced – Leena Meri: “Strange message happened”

Ministry of Justice on Monday, sent advance information to several organizations about the request for an opinion on the Equality Act.

In the e-mail obtained by HS, it is stated that “the law is intended to remove the obligation to promote equality in early childhood education”.

“There’s a strange message that happened to them,” the Minister of Justice Leena Meri (ps) answered the chairman of the Greens who criticized the advance information For Sofia Virra message service in X on Wednesday.

According to Meren X’s answer, the purpose of the law reform is to reduce the duplication of plans and reports made in municipalities. HS could not reach Merta to comment further on the matter by Wednesday afternoon.

Advance knowledge the design had failed, says the head of the self-government and equality unit Corinna Tammenmaa from the Ministry of Justice.

According to Tammenmaa, the law reform would not change the current situation much, because Sanna Marini (sd) the obligation to draw up equality plans for kindergartens established during the government’s term has not yet become mandatory.

The government’s proposal for reforming the Equality Act has not been published, so there is no exact information about the changes yet.

Association of Municipalities presented the abandonment of daycare-specific equality plans in the norm demolition program published last week.

According to the municipal association, the waiver would lighten the administrative duties of daycare workers. That way, they would have more time to work with the children.

Last week, the government submitted a proposal to the opinion round about ending the preparation of local early childhood education plans in accordance with the Early Childhood Education Act.

Correction 19.6. 8:18 p.m.: Contrary to what was erroneously stated earlier in the story, Tammenmaa’s first name is Corinna, not Corina.