Childcare: The Italian context

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• Childcare The Italian context
• Different kind of provisions, both Public and
  Private
• Some innovative provisions in the last years
  (Integrated nursery, family nursery, childcare
  centre, atelier, centre for children and parents,
  rooms for children, house nursery)
• Training and qualification pathways for
  professionals in care and childcare provision,
  recognised and certified by the Regional
  Governments
• Strong differences in provision geographical
  distribution between North, Centre and South of
  Italy
• One datum is for all about the 85 out of the
  total childcare provision in Italy is provided by
  and for the North Centre Italy.
• Less services both public and private in the
  South of Italy that correspond to the general gap
  between the North Centre and the South in the
  employment rate, women employment and economic
  development.

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• Capitalising the experience
• Job insertion of project beneficiaries
• The competences acquired so far and the
  co-operation with the
• Care and Childcare Organisations have brought to
  a new job demand
• where beneficiaries themselves are able to
  answer, thus promoting
• their job insertion directly in them.
• RES INTERNATIONAL, at this regard, is working as
  a job centre in
• Care and Childcare sector, meeting the different
  needs and providing
• job opportunities to beneficiaries interested in
  them

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• Capitalising the experience
• Incubation of a new kind of Social Enterprise, as
  a
• branch of RES INTERNATIONAL
• REStiAmo INSIEME (Lets stay together)
• A MULTI SERVICE CENTRE FOR MEETING CARE AND
  CHILDCARE NEEDS

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• REStiAmo INSIEME (Lets stay together)
• A MULTI SERVICE CENTRE FOR MEETING CARE AND
  CHILDCARE NEEDS
• Indoor provisions
• Innovative childcare for children (from 6 up to
  10 years old) and for children and young people
  in risk (from 11 up to 17 years old), resident in
  the area
• Parental support and counselling for men and
  women with children living disadvantaged
  conditions in the area
• Innovative Care provision for elderly people

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• REStiAmo INSIEME (Lets stay together)
• A MULTI SERVICE CENTRE FOR MEETING CARE AND
  CHILDCARE NEEDS
• Outdoor provisions
• Childcare services (from 12 months up to 10 years
  old) in schools and in other public and private
  Organisations for infants/ children in Region
  Campania
• Creative laboratories for children in risk at
  Family houses, both public and private, in
  disadvantaged areas of the city of Naples
• Creative laboratories for elderly people in rest
  houses both Public and Private
• Home care and childcare provision

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• REStiAmo INSIEME (Lets stay together)
• A MULTI SERVICE CENTRE FOR MEETING CARE AND
  CHILDCARE NEEDS
• Indoor Innovative Care provision for elderly
  people
• Line of services
• Physical and psychological assistance
• Implementation of social, cultural and manual
  activities for recovering elderly peoples
  residual skills reading, theatre, gym,
  handicraft, music, cooking, discussion
• Teaching updating competences and knowledge and
  acquiring new skills (for instance computer
  science and foreign language)
• Information on legislation and bureaucracy
  (sanity systems, pensions, etc)

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• Indoor Innovative childcare for children (from
  6 up to 10 years old) and for children and young
  people in risk (from 11 up to 17 years old),
  resident in the area
• Line of services
• Educational and psychological assistance
• Implementation of social, cultural and manual
  activities for improving children and young
  peoples relational and social competencies
  theatre, sport, handicraft, music, audiovisual
  entertainment
• Educational support for avoiding early school
  leaving
• Conflict mediation (social and familiar
  mediation, education at legality to avoid their
  flowing into crime)
• Guidance to the seeking of a job or of a
  professional training opportunity (for young
  people older than 16 years old, having achieved
  compulsory school diploma)

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• Indoor Parental support and counselling for men
  and women
• with children living disadvantaged conditions in
  the area
• Line of services
• Conflict and familiar mediation (contrasts among
  parents, gender discrimination)
• Information on childcare opportunities and
  access
• Education at parental values
• Implementation of social, cultural and manual
  activities with their children for promoting
  dialogue and early warning on the possible
  conflicts
• Guidance to the seeking of a job or of a
  professional training opportunity for unemployed
  parents and mothers, above all.

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Outdoor Childcare services (from 12 months up to
10 years old) in schools and in other public and
private Organisations for infants/ children in
Region Campania The provision is managed by
groups of beneficiaries into several nurseries,
kindergarten, public infant schools and
elementary schools, play centres in all the area
of Region Campania and especially in Naples
area. The services are very customised to the
different needs of the users and of the
Organisations
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Outdoor Creative laboratories for children in
risk at Family houses, both public and private,
in disadvantaged areas of the city of Naples
The provision is managed by groups of
beneficiaries into several family houses in north
Naples and in co-operation with Tribunals, Public
Schools and public social assistants and
psychologists, being member of RES INTERNATIONAL
network The services are very customised to the
different needs of the users and of the
Organisations
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Outdoor Creative laboratories for elderly people
in rest houses both Public and Private The
provision is managed, at the moment, by groups of
beneficiaries into four public and private Care
Organisations for elderly people in Region
Campania. The services are very customised to
the different needs of the users and of the
Organisations
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Outdoor Home care and childcare services This
line of service is object of a greatest interest
in the area and will be considered as a future
line of development of the Social Enterprise.
The business plan have shown that private users
are available to pay for this services and a
study about a possible system of fares coherent
with the different users financial possibility
it is under examination right now.
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BUSINESS IS BUSINESS HOW CAN THE SOCIAL
ENTERPRISE BE SUSTAINABLE IN THE FUTURE?
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• BUSINESS IS BUSINESS
• Until the end of 2007, the entrepreneurial system
  described is subsided under EQUAL funds

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BUSINESS IS BUSINESS 2. The sustainability of
the business is firstly a RES INTERNATIONAL
investment, also with the search of possible
future ways of fund raising within public funds
and private investments.
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BUSINESS IS BUSINESS 3. The economic and
juridical dimension of the Social Enterprise in
incubation is at middle way between Public and
Private
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