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Comprehensive proposal articulates education, care and early childhood developmentThe Ministry of Education (Minedu) reported that the EduCuna service is underway in the country, providing educational attention and day care to girls and boys from 12 to 36 months of age, with priority for mothers who are heads of households in situations of poverty, extreme poverty or vulnerability.
In this way, the service makes it easier for families, especially mothers, to have a schedule that allows them to work or study with greater peace of mind, knowing that their children receive adequate educational attention from the first years of life.
In this regard, the Minister of Education, Jorge Figueroa, highlighted that EduCuna is a free educational and comprehensive care service that is provided in public educational institutions, with a daily eight-hour day, in safe spaces and specially conditioned for the well-being of early childhood.
He added that care is provided by qualified teachers and assistants with specialized training in care for children under three years of age as part of initial education, who prioritize the quality of interactions and pedagogical support. EduCuna is provided in safe spaces that promote early learning, play and social-emotional development.
The Minedu specified that the program is part of the history of initial education in the country. Educational cribs were implemented in the sector during the Educational Reform of the 1970s with Law No. 19326, reaffirming that it constitutes an educational and care service, as established today by Law No. 28044.
Within this framework, the sector has been positioning EduCuna as a comprehensive proposal that articulates education, care and early childhood development, in accordance with the approaches promoted by international organizations such as the OECD.
In addition, Minedu will strengthen it through an evaluation that will allow us to know the impact on early childhood development, a measure that is framed in Ministerial Resolution No. 055-2026-MINEDU, which approves the technical standard for the implementation of the service in publicly managed cribs and garden cribs, and which promotes evidence-based management for the continuous improvement of initial education.
The results will allow us to optimize the use of public resources, expand the offer and consolidate a results-oriented early childhood policy.
The Minedu urges interested mothers to inform themselves about the benefits of the service and to approach the nearest public educational institution that has EduCuna, ratifying their commitment to the protection of early childhood and timely access to educational services from the first years of life.
