Childcare: This is how Oberhaching wants to prevent the bottleneck

Created: 01/05/2022, 12:20 PM

From: Birgit Davies

With a stress test, Oberhaching wants to find out how the population in the community is developing and what needs are emerging in terms of childcare.

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In order to get more security in the planning for the need for further places in the crèche, kindergarten and after-school care center, the members of the Oberhachingen main and finance committee now advocated a so-called "stress test".

Oberhaching

- As Mayor Stefan Schelle (CSU) reported, such a test was carried out a few years ago, whereby the development of the population in the various settlement areas can be forecast.

One example of this is the “Witt settlement”, which was built in the early 1960s.

The test not only found out how many people are currently living in a house there, but also the age structure.

This made it possible to predict that a generation change will soon take place and that more young families with children can be expected here.

"Without these results we would have built the new Deisenhofen elementary school too small," said Schelle.

A strong influx of people has been observed since summer 2020, so it is becoming apparent that childcare will be tight.

22 families are waiting for a place in the crèche

To date, every child in Oberhaching has been given a day care place.

But by early summer 22 families alone need a place in the daycare area, even though an additional fourth daycare group has been opened in one of the communal daycare centers.

Due to Corona, parents are increasingly leaving their children in daycare for a year longer due to the situation in schools.

"This means that there will also be a need for after-school care places in the next year," said Schelle.