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Countries reject mandatory social graduation of daycare fees

2022-10-07T14:39:46.834Z


If the federal government has its way, daycare contributions should in future be based on income, among other things. The federal states opposed this requirement in the Bundesrat. They see this as a »disproportionate intervention«.


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New quality law for day care centers (symbol image): the federal and state governments do not agree

Photo: Uwe Anspach / dpa

The federal states reject parts of the law planned by the federal government for better quality in day care centers.

This emerges from a statement issued by the Federal Council.

The focus of the criticism is a regulation according to which the parental contributions for day-care center care must in future be graded according to income and the number of children entitled to child benefit.

With the planned Kita Quality Act, the federal government is "unilaterally changing the requirements for a future allocation of funds," criticized the Saxon Minister of Education, Christian Piwarz (CDU).

The federal states would "not support the mandatory staggering of parental contributions," he explained.

This new regulation is “difficult to implement” and “represents a disproportionate intervention by the federal government in the competence of the federal states”.

With the new law, the federal government wants to further develop the so-called “Good Day Care Law”.

A stronger focus on the quality of child day care is intended.

For this purpose, the federal government will provide the federal states with funds of four billion euros over the next two years.

Money for more skilled workers and to strengthen the daycare management

According to the draft, measures by the federal states to improve quality and to relieve parents of the contributions that have already been started since 2019 can be continued.

However, from January 1, 2023, the federal states may only take measures to further develop certain areas of action specified in the law, for example for more skilled workers or to strengthen the day-care center management.

It is also planned that in future the states will only be allowed to use a maximum of half of the federal funds to relieve parents of daycare contributions.

So far this has been 100 percent possible.

The parliamentary state secretary in the family ministry, Ekin Deligöz, defended the project.

"To be honest, I don't see any exaggerated or even unachievable challenges and changes in it," she said.

The Bundestag wants to discuss the law in the first reading next week.

Before that, the federal government can still comment on the opinion of the Bundesrat.

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Source: spiegel

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