Mateusz Morawiecki announced the plan at a news conference in the southern town of Działoszyce on Saturday, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
The prime minister attended the opening of a new nursery and kindergarten funded by the government.
Morawiecki told reporters that the Law and Justice (PiS) government had increased the number of nursery places from 80,000 to 230,000 in recent years.
The prime minister declared: “Some 100,000 additional government-funded nursery places are being created, so there will be 330,000 places in total.”
Morawiecki noted that his government had also pledged to increase the country’s flagship “Family 500+” child benefit as of next year, from PLN 500 (EUR 110) to PLN 800 (EUR 180).
He said this would give Polish children “even more opportunities” to develop and nurture their talents, such as through extra-curricular activities.
Morawiecki stressed that the expansion of childcare was also designed to help Polish parents continue to develop and return to employment.
The prime minister told reporters: “We seek to ensure that everyone who wants to have children is able to do that and feel secure about the next decades of their life.”
Morawiecki also said that thanks to the government’s social policy, including the expansion of nursery care, the number of Polish people in employment had surpassed 17 million, the PAP news agency reported.
“It’s the highest number in the post-1989 era, according to the European Union’s statistics agency, Eurostat,” the prime minister said.
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Source: PAP, gazetaprawna.pl
