Free after-school care hours in Svalbard: question on cost

Sunniva Holmås Eidsvoll of Sosialistisk Venstreparti (the Socialist Left Party) has asked the education minister to work out the price of free SFO core hours in Svalbard, Stortinget (the Norwegian parliament) said on Monday 2 November. She asks for separate figures for grades 1 to 3 and for grade 4. SFO (skolefritidsordning) is the after-school care for primary pupils. The written question, number 449, is dated Friday 30 October and its status is under consideration.

In her reasoning, Holmås Eidsvoll notes that pupils in grades 1 to 3 on the mainland get 12 free SFO hours a week, but pupils in Svalbard do not. She says this could be solved by adding the money to the grant to the local council.

She asks for the answer to be calculated for full participation, with both full-year and half-year effect.

Coverage: Stortinget