Ho Chi Minh City after merger: Department of Education and Training gives urgent instructions to ensure safety of preschool children

The People's Committees of communes, wards and special zones of Ho Chi Minh City must supervise and direct preschools to continue to maintain and stabilize quality and ensure safety for children.

Today (July 10), the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City issued an official dispatch to the People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones; and principals of affiliated preschools requesting them to continue organizing activities to nurture, care for, and educate children and enhance responsibility for ensuring safety for preschools. The requirements are set in the context of the merger and application of a two-level local government nationwide. The new Ho Chi Minh City is now expanding the number of preschool children andpreschools ; many facilities organize summer activities to meet the needs of a large number of parents.

Ho Chi Minh City can keep children in the summer until August 15.

The leaders of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City requested the People's Committees of communes, wards and special zones to direct preschools to continue to maintain and stabilize the quality of child care and education; proactively inspect and supervise the activities of preschools, especially independent preschools, child care groups; life skills education centers in the area, ensuring that activities are organized according to the granted licenses; and carry out periodic and ad hoc reporting when requested.

Leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training requested all preschools in Ho Chi Minh City to ensure absolute safety for children during summer activities.

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In addition, the responsibility of the People's Committees of communes, wards and special zones is to guide preschool education facilities to fully update the industry database system with the list of 5-year-old preschool children (children born in 2019) who have completed the preschool education program as prescribed.

At the same time, after merging Binh Duong province, Ba Ria - Vung Tau province and the old Ho Chi Minh City into the new Ho Chi Minh City, the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City requested all wards, communes and special zones in the new Ho Chi Minh City to deploy to preschools, instructing units to be able to organize summer activities until August 15, 2025, if parents have the need and the unit meets the conditions.

The Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City recommends that each commune, ward, and special zone should appoint an officer in charge of preschool education as a focal point to facilitate information exchange.

Ensuring absolute safety for preschool children in the summer

After the merger, the new Ho Chi Minh City now has about 2.6 million preschool children and students of all levels, the largest in the country; the school scale is about 3,500 schools from preschool to high school.

The leaders of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City requested that all preschools in Ho Chi Minh City must ensure that all summer activities for children are included in the preschool education program; increase recreational activities, experiences, organize physical training skill clubs; ensure food hygiene and safety, nutrition. Must proactively prevent epidemics; prevent abuse, school violence; regularly review conditions of fire prevention and fighting, security and order, electrical systems, trees, etc.

It is necessary to ensure that all summer activities for children are included in the preschool education program.

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Even in the summer, all preschools in Ho Chi Minh City must strictly ensure the number of teachers per child as prescribed; teachers must participate in professional training. School leaders and owners of independent preschools must regularly inspect and supervise the organization of activities according to the unit's assigned schedule.

Once again, the leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training require all preschools during the summer activities, if they build, renovate or repair facilities, to ensure absolute safety for children.

"Private kindergartens and independent preschool education facilities create conditions for teachers to attend training courses to improve their professional skills; classes to improve training standards to meet the 2019 Education Law," the leader of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training requested.

Requesting the People's Committees of communes, wards and special zones to update the content of Circular 09/2025 of the Ministry of Education and Training

The Department of Education and Training requests the People's Committees of communes, wards and special zones to study and update the content of Circular No. 09/2025/TT-BGDDT dated June 12, 2025 of the Ministry of Education and Training regulating the decentralization, delegation and assignment of authority to perform state management tasks of two-level local authorities for preschool education.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/tphcm-sau-sap-nhap-so-gd-dt-chi-dao-nong-dam-bao-an-toan-tre-mam-non-185250710155443343.htm