Katarina Nilsson works as a preschool teacher at Berghem in Umeå. Thursday's decision, which means that the preschool and elementary school board will save SEK 18.5 million next year, resulted in the saving of SEK 6.7 million at the preschool next year. Foremost, this will be marked by a resource allocation where the proportion of preschool teachers will be fewer and the proportion of child carers will be more.

- For the preschool as a whole, it means a big reduction in quality. Preschool teachers are the ones who are responsible for quality assurance in the operations and if you reduce the quality you lower, she says.

According to Katarina Nilsson, the municipality instead needs to invest in preschool and school in general, otherwise it may be expensive in the future.

- When you invest in school and preschool it means you make savings in the long term and you cut down on preschool and school it means that it will cost society a lot in the long run, she says.

Breaststroke (S): The funds are not enough for the needs

The Chairman of the Board Moa Brydsten (S) understands that it was a tough decision made and believes that you would have needed more money from the council, you got 78 million but needed 98 to be able to continue at the same level as today.

- Our committee has not received the allocation of funds we needed and so it looks like in all the committees of the municipality. Unfortunately, the funds for the needs we have in 2020 are insufficient and we have made a decision that will create so little change and impact in children and pupils, says the preschool and elementary school board chair Moa Brydsten (S).