"Fight" for a license/ Institutions harass the citizen

2024-05-10 22:26:00, Denoncim CNA

The show "Stop" was in Vlora, where the citizen Ferdinand Shehaj says that he opened a nursery in January 2024.

There are 25 children aged 0-3 in his nursery. Ferdinand says that he is trying to license his daycare center and cannot find the right institution.

"Being friendly to children, having functional facilities, we thought that it is a necessity for the city. We think that we have met all the conditions and have started paying all the municipal taxes, but we cannot be satisfied with a license", he said.

He is stranded without a solution and is afraid of facing penalties.

In the city hall, they told him that he should go to the Ministry of Education, as the City Hall simply monitors.

Citizen: I have a private nursery. I came again and I want to get a license!

Employee: They are very wrong, because there is no legal basis to be provided with a license from the municipality. I have to go to the Ministry of Education!

Citizen: The Ministry of Education says that it does not...

Employee: No, no! Tell me the legal basis, which leads me to the municipality! It is not accepted in the municipality. Go to the educational directorate there! The municipality does not give. The municipality monitors nurseries and kindergartens.

Citizen: They say that we give licenses to 3 years old and older, but we are 0-3 years old.

Employee: There is no legal basis for that.

Citizen: You have no legal basis?

Employee: No!

In the Local Education Office of Vlorë-Himarë you are directed to the Ministry of Health.

Journalist: Apply here for daycare? For a daycare license?

Employee: The nurseries are run by the Ministry of Health.

Journalist: Ministry of Health. Thank you!

While Health shows you the door of the National Business Center and the Ministry of Education. The answer he received from KKB is that the nursery license is not issued by this institution.

Citizen: Please, can you inform me, how can I proceed for the licensing of a private nursery?

Employee: We have nothing to do with nurseries.

Citizen: Yes, the education office directed me to you.

Employee: To the Ministry of Health? Did you get your license? To KKB, NKL. We are not related. Go to Education once!

At the Ministry of Education, Ferdinand was told that they issue licenses for kindergartens for children aged 3-6.

Citizen: I want to be informed about the licensing of a private nursery school!

Employee: Kindergarten? Yes, the Ministry does not have nurseries, the municipality does.

Citizen: Yes, I have been to the City Hall and I have not received an answer.

Employee: The Ministry does not have a nursery license, it has kindergartens. The Ministry of Education has never granted nursery licenses.

The Ministry of Education took the citizen back to the municipality, returning him to zero point, without finding a solution./ tvklan