Parents who look after their children at home should be financially compensated.
This is what SPD politicians in the district around state parliament member Natascha Kohnen, deputy district administrator Annette Ganssmüller-Maluche, member of the Bundestag Bela Bach and the social democratic mayor are calling for.
District
- "Those who do without emergency care in the day-care center shouldn't have to pay for it," said district chairman Florian Schardt.
He could imagine a lump sum or a reimbursement of daycare fees for parents who do not use emergency care.
After the first lockdown in spring, the owners of the respective institutions received money from the Free State to waive the fees for parents.
But this was not enough to cover costs everywhere.
Many municipalities have taken over the remaining costs to relieve parents.
However, Schardt points out that not every municipality has these financial possibilities.
A solution that is fair to all should be found.
Parents who do without emergency care are neglected
The instrument of “emergency care” enables parents to entrust their children to a daycare center in an emergency - if there is no other option.
A considerable number of parents manage the balancing act between job, home office, special Corona vacation and other complex arrangements that usually involve financial losses.
In the opinion of the Social Democrats, parents in particular who do without emergency care and look after their offspring themselves are neglected in the district.
In a joint statement they advocate an “unbureaucratic solution
Every fifth child in emergency care
According to information from the Ministry of Social Affairs, every fifth day care child uses the emergency care offered in kindergartens etc. There are regional differences.
In rural regions, the proportion of families who look after their children at home is increasing.
The Social Democrats are concerned with these parents: Those who do without emergency care and thereby help conserve capacities in the daycare centers should, in Schardt's view, be rewarded: “Parents who, as instructed, do not take emergency care should not have to pay for it!
That contradicts a healthy sense of justice. "
