translated from Spanish: Grandmothers would take care of better children, says Urzúa

while opposition parties demand cuts to the budget for childcare, the Secretary of the Treasury, Carlos Urzúa, said Wednesday that the funds in excess of two billion pesos allocated for this program are more than enough, although arises change the method of distribution of that money.
According to Notimex, Urzua told media that a proposal to the Secretariat for welfare, Maria Luisa dawn Gonzalez, presented is no longer directly provide resources for children’s rooms, but giving the money for that purpose directly to parents, or even make them “grandmothers” of the families, which surely will better care to children.
“with that can help the grandmother who will care, maybe better children than own childcare. Do I mean? Give flexibility to parents and not tied down with childcare in particular,”said the federal official, according to reform.
Although the Treasury Secretary spoke about the change in the method of distribution, hours before your account Twitter former President Calderon defended the childcare program, implemented by Pan Governments and “recognized around the world as one of the programs that best support working mothers”, operates without intermediaries, through direct support to mothers.
He is not cancel resources, because these are already tagged for the care of minors, Urzua said. Until last year, there were approximately 350 thousand children enrolled in childcare and slightly less than 10 thousand rooms.
Federal Congresswoman Martha Tagle expressed its rejection to the statements of the Secretary of the Treasury.
“It is not that the grandmothers are in charge of girls and children so that parents can work, they must have guarantees to live their old age, children should have spaces to be served and be encouraged to develop skills” , Tagle said.
“Carlos Urzúa need to study, understand and know the impact of the care economy and the responsibility of the State to design policies, plans, programs and laws for a more equitable distribution among the different social actors,” he added.
On this topic the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, mentioned Tuesday that would seek to continue to support mothers and their children, but with a mechanism of direct care, without intermediaries.
“There are protesters by a program of children’s rooms that we are reviewing, because that program, managed by Sedesol which was, it consisted of giving support to families so that their children could go to these children’s rooms and charged them a quantity. Then, the Government last year allocated more than three billion pesos for this purpose”, said Lopez Obrador in his morning Conference.
“The first thing that worried me was the situation of childcare, because we do not know under what conditions children are and we don’t want to have problems, we want to avoid any situation”, added.
The President of the budget Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Alfonso Ramírez Cuéllar, Morena, said that the trimming of the budget of the programme for childcare because it detected that there was corruption, but they will do a review they have one proposal, allowing cater to all children who require it.
The political Commission of the PAN, in a statement, noted that childcare program is a public policy that drove the Pan Governments, “which has helped thousands of Mexican families and currently has an impact on the lives of 350 thousand boys and girls to” national level”, as well as in the 4 thousand children with different capabilities.
“By reducing the budget for childcare is attempting directly against the rights of children and the family, but also in these more than 9 thousand stays endangered directly or indirectly some 70,000 jobs, assuming an average of 8 people by” nursery, among whom are cooks, pedagogical, specialists, nurses, cleaning people and assistants, among others,”spoke of the bread.
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Original source in Spanish