More staff for day care centers in Saarland
Created: 01/19/2022 13:15
An intern reads to children in a day care center.
© Sebastian Gollnow/dpa/Illustration
The day-care centers in Saarland will be better staffed in the future.
This provides for a law that the state parliament passed on Wednesday in Saarbrücken against the votes of the two left-wing parliamentary groups.
In total, an additional 4.26 million euros are to be spent each year.
The state accounts for 3.6 million euros of this, the rest for the districts.
Saarbrücken - Minister of Education Christine Streichert-Clivot (SPD) said that the law not only contributes to better compatibility of family and work, but also to educational equity: "This is a groundbreaking step for the future viability of early childhood education in Saarland."
In Saarland, there are currently a good 36,000 children in day-care centers, 6,600 of whom are less than three years old.
Around 21,000 children are looked after for more than seven hours a day.
The new law stipulates that in future the specialists in the day-care centers will be released for practical instruction, i.e. for the training of young people in practice. At almost 2.5 million euros, this area accounts for the largest share of the total additional costs. In addition, domestic workers and workers in training should no longer be based on the normal job key. In addition, 25 percent of the working time is planned as available time for indirect pedagogical work. In future, at least two skilled workers per group should be employed in day-care centers. Previously, the value was 1.5.
The left-wing opposition criticized the law as insufficient.
"The personnel key now provided is considered to be unrealistic and impractical," said Barbara Spaniol (Saar-Linke).
He is only oriented towards the economic possibilities.
Astrid Schramm (Die Linke) complained that 81 percent of children in Saarland were not being looked after adequately.
"The groups are too big.
There will be further significant need for improvement.” Sandra Johann (CDU) warned that the shortage of skilled workers should be addressed.
Germany is currently missing about 100,000 educators.
Among other things, the automatic recognition of French qualifications should help in the search for necessary additional specialists.
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Streichert-Clivot rejected the criticism.
In practice, the changes in the law meant that an average of two to three additional specialists could be hired per daycare center.
"We have now taken an important step, tailored to needs and practical." dpa
