More than 5,000 children out of school in Uruguay

Montevideo, 12 Jul (Prensa Latina) The Uruguayan government today seeks to reintegrate thousands of children and teenagers who are outside the public education system.

July 12, 2025
11:32

This effort involves the Ministry of Social Development (MIDES), together with the National Public Education Administration (ANEP), the Social Welfare Bank and the Institute for Children and Adolescents of Uruguay.

According to the head of MIDES, Gonzalo Civila, there are more than 5,300 children of compulsory education age who were not enrolled in the system.

The president of ANEP, Pablo Caggiani, stressed the importance of linking these children and teenagers, since it “guarantees another set of rights” not only to education, but also to access to health, the social protection matrix, and “a lot of interventions that can be done from public policy”.

The ANEP Directorate of Initial and Primary Education has began the search and recruitment process, involving inspectors, principals, teachers and non-teaching staff; also through the Community Teacher Programme.

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