Chairman of the Board Stefan Larsson (M) believes that it is a matter of decency and justice.

- If you use a municipal service, you have to pay for it. If you do not do this, you risk running away, then the debt is built on all the time, says Stefan Larsson.

He adds that it is important to keep the concepts apart. All children are entitled to 15 hours of preschool a week - that part is not affected, but it is the fee-paid part that is now being tightened up, something that Northern Skåne was the first to report.

The decision was voted on this summer by the Moderates, Christian Democrats and the Sweden Democrats in the Hässleholm Children's and Education Board.

Have a chance to do right

- At present, 57 parents have received a letter stating that they will lose their childcare place if they do not settle the debt. They still have the opportunity to regulate their debts, so they should be able to keep their seats, says Stefan Larsson.

According to Christer Pettersson, head of operations for the preschool in Hässleholm municipality, there are already some who have lost their places.

- Yes, there are some. However, I do not know the exact figures, but as I understand, the number who risk losing their seats has decreased significantly, says Christer Pettersson.

Can your staff out at preschools stop parents who want to leave their children?

- We want our staff to focus on running the business. We don't want them to have to put people in the door. When it comes to billing issues, payments and such - it's not the business's mission really.

Opposition critical

The fact that the children were allowed to keep their seats despite unpaid fees was a decision that the S-led majority pushed through 2015. Now the decision has been revoked. The Social Democrats and the Center Party strongly opposed the decision this summer.

- Is it right that the children should not be given the opportunity to pre-school because the parents have not paid? We think that the children whose parents are not doing well for themselves may not have it easy at home either. That was our starting point, says Joachim Fors (S), second vice chairman of the Children's and Education Board.