Centralized Registration for Vacation Programs

1. Background:

Starting at age 6, children in Lausanne are no longer cared for during the summer by daycare centers. Since APEMS are also closed during the summer, working parents must therefore enroll their children in the various summer activities offered on the City’s website.

Since the registration procedures differ for each location, this situation causes significant stress for parents, who must fill out different forms and submit applications to each facility, each of which has its own rules and deadlines for accepting registrations.

These procedures are particularly cumbersome and sometimes even inaccessible to certain families (e.g., families who speak a language other than French, single-parent families) due to their complexity.

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2. Proposal:

To simplify and improve access to these services, the idea would be to centralize the processing of requests by providing, on the city’s website and in brochures for parents, a single registration form that would allow parents to register their children for the entire summer based on their childcare needs.

The City would then assign children based on the needs reported by parents and according to the availability of spots in the various facilities.

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3. Motivation:

This proposal would provide relief to many parents and improve access to these services.

The primary beneficiaries are the children of Lausanne, but also their parents.

This would also promote greater social diversity, since families who currently lack access—for various reasons (e.g., families who speak a different language, people with limited proficiency in French, administrative procedures, or computer skills, etc.)—could more easily complete these applications and enroll their children.