watershed in the regulation of child care
Silvia Nunez Esquer
Hermosillo, Son. , May 5, 2011 .- On completion of the tragic 23 months ABC day care incident, which occurred in this city on June 5, 2009, Lorenzo Ramos Felix welcomed by approval of the General Law on Provision of Care Services, Integrated Child Care and Development in Senate on 29 April.
Counsel for the Citizens' Movement for Justice on June 5, a civil association formed by parents of children who died in a fire in the nursery ABC, and others who were with injuries and sequelae in surviving the crash, said the "Law on June 5" goes far beyond the technical standard to address the legal obligations that are acquired by having their care and education to children up to five years of age.
Felix Ramos explained that this is a general law that fills a legal vacuum in regard to the operation and functioning of childcare facilities throughout the country. The law regulates both nurseries operated directly by the public authorities, such as the IMSS, the States, the Federal District and the federal child care and the particular surrogate.
nurseries are currently self-regulating, ie, each governed by its own rules, such as the Federal District, operating under rules of the City of Mexico, but attend a general regulation. The surrogate care are in a worse situation, as demonstrated by the investigation of the Supreme Court's Office, SCJN he said.
This is because in the absence of a clear law as it now is driving the movement on June 5, day care surrogates were operating under official standards. These are standards which are issued by various administrative departments of the federal executive branch, which serve to meet operational criteria, but not to change.
The problem is that when not fulfilled and generated tragedies such as the June 5 that killed 49 minors, have no penalty provided, or even have some means of forecasting of accidents and that is what happened in the case of ABC Childcare.
are technical standards that do not bring with it the penalty, such as the correction. Good government is not seeking sanction, but which seeks to prevent disastrous events such as Hermosillo, and in that sense that we are talking about a day-care law, we are putting a legal basis from which to carry out the enforcement, not official standards, but the legal rules provide for how to operate kindergartens and what to do if not satisfied.
Let there be no free will of the owners of childcare as in ABC if they remove or not remove a roof that is significantly dangerous. If you install or not install smoke detection devices or fire. Those are very clear rules that the law must contain to avoid such tragedies. The Act is not so much to punish, but to prevent.
Halfway
As this is a general law enacted by the Congress of the union and the chamber of origin was the Senate, and adopted in full, and passed the House of Representatives. Now we're making is that if the Congress is convened a special session, we will fight for inclusion in the agenda for discussion and approval of the minutes that sent the Senate, for a time approving is sent publish and legal effects, and start to demand entry into force of this Act terminates.
Senator Francisco Castellón Fonseca, of the Democratic Revolution Party, PRD and Senator Emma Lucia Larios Sonoran Gaxiola, National Action Party, PAN authors of the initiative will be on Friday May 6 in Hermosillo, in a dialogue with concerned parents, members of the Movement June 5 on the General Law on Provision of Care Services, Child Care and Integral Development, LGPSACDI.
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