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The daycare places are far from enough

2022-07-25T04:12:36.433Z


The daycare places are far from sufficient Created: 07/25/2022, 06:00 The day-care center on Amperweg, which is still under construction, is to have 50 kindergarten places in two groups. ©rds A record-breaking 232 registered children will probably not get the daycare place they want in the fall. Space would be there, but the support staff is missing. There is a huge gap, especially in the crèch


The daycare places are far from sufficient

Created: 07/25/2022, 06:00

The day-care center on Amperweg, which is still under construction, is to have 50 kindergarten places in two groups.

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A record-breaking 232 registered children will probably not get the daycare place they want in the fall.

Space would be there, but the support staff is missing.

There is a huge gap, especially in the crèche area.

Dachau

– For the 2022/2023 care year, the city of Dachau received a total of 1220 registrations for crèche, kindergarten, after-school care and midday care places via the online registration process "Kitaplatz-Bedarfsanmeldung".

This emerges from the meeting proposal by Markus Haberl's Office for Schools, Childcare, Youth, Social Affairs and Sport, which Mayor Florian Hartmann (SPD) presented at the most recent meeting of the Dachau Family and Social Committee.

That is 64 registrations or five percent more than in the previous year.

According to the administration, a place could only be offered in 945 cases – that is 77.5 percent – ​​of the 1220 registrations.

Conversely, this means that as of June 27, 232 registrations or 19 percent were still "open" - almost every fifth registered child is still without a childcare place.

This overhang also existed in the past. A year ago, on July 21, 2021, for example, 108 registrations were still open - the gap was not even half as big as this year.   

However, the documents for only 176 children were handed in on time by the registration deadline on March 31; they are processed with priority.

That is why the mayor only spoke of these 176 places in the meeting.

A year ago there was also a gap, but it was much smaller

The greatest demand is with 117 punctual and 15 subsequent open registrations for children from eleven months to two years and nine months for crèche places - in the previous year only 60 were not covered.

According to the administration, the new daycare center on Amperweg with a crèche group, which is expected to go into operation at the beginning of 2023, cannot compensate for this deficit.

Mayor Hartmann gave the number for the kindergarten area with a total of 45 punctual and 28 subsequent open registrations.

The new facility on Amperweg is to have 50 kindergarten places in two groups.

Should enough staff be found for the municipal daycare center in Neufelder Strolche, a third kindergarten group with a further 25 children could start there.

Theoretically.

Because the mayor warned against overly high hopes: "The available rooms cannot be used because we lack the staff."

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In the case of school children, however, the situation is manageable with 20 open registrations for after-school care or lunchtime care - ten on time, ten late.

This is due to the massive expansion of the lunchtime care places at the Augustenfeld primary school.

CSU criticized: "Always run after the need"

In this context, Hartmann emphasized that the city's forecasts had proven to be correct.

That didn't stop the CSU faction spokesman, Florian Schiller, from taking a dig at the mayor: "I've been following this since 2008. The numbers are still lagging behind the need." After his election in 2014, Hartmann promised to do everything better and to want to plan with foresight and thus more in line with requirements.

Schiller: "We have to make sure that we stick with it and complete the projects."

Hartmann brought the housing situation into play when asked how, in addition to good pay, more caregivers could be found in an empty job market.

It is important to discuss with the staff council at the city administration whether the day-care center staff should preferably be offered city apartments.

"It will be exciting to settle that."

The mayor put another question mark in the skyrocketing construction prices.

He does not know how such municipal company housing should be financed at all: "It will still be very exhausting to build."

Since not all children can get a childcare place, Sarah Jacob (Greens) wanted to know the criteria according to which the 20 places for the school children are allocated.

Head of department Markus Haberl replied: "It depends on the age of the children and how they fit into the group." Helmut Esch (Greens) also wanted to know whether single parents would be given priority.

Haberl confirmed that.

Reinhard-Dietmar Sponder

You can find more current news from the district of Dachau at Merkur.de/Dachau.

Source: merkur

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