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Personnel shortage: the city of Starnberg is canceling 24 promised daycare places

2022-08-10T11:18:10.054Z


Personnel shortage: the city of Starnberg is canceling 24 promised daycare places Created: 08/10/2022, 1:00 p.m By: Tobias Gmach The colorful problem child of Starnberg: The city is looking for staff for the Irmgard Stadler kindergarten. But reinforcements are also needed in other institutions. © ANDREA JAKSCH The city had to cancel 24 places in the Irmgard Stadler kindergarten at short notice


Personnel shortage: the city of Starnberg is canceling 24 promised daycare places

Created: 08/10/2022, 1:00 p.m

By: Tobias Gmach

The colorful problem child of Starnberg: The city is looking for staff for the Irmgard Stadler kindergarten.

But reinforcements are also needed in other institutions.

© ANDREA JAKSCH

The city had to cancel 24 places in the Irmgard Stadler kindergarten at short notice – because the director and three other employees had resigned.

The town hall is now trying to accommodate the children in other facilities.

Starnberg – An e-mail from the Starnberg town hall startled 24 families last Wednesday.

The city informed the parents that there was no place for their offspring in the Irmgard Stadler kindergarten - just a month before the planned first day of daycare at the beginning of September.

In an e-mail to the editors, an affected mother complained about the lack of communication on the part of the city.

Despite the well-known personnel problems, which were also reported several times in Merkur, those responsible "appeared when asked again in July".

The woman, who wants to remain anonymous, also writes: "From the parents' point of view, the situation has been glossed over for too long and not communicated."

Deputy Mayor Angelika Kammerl, Patrick Janik's holiday replacement, now communicates when asked by Merkur: "The kindergarten manager had given notice at short notice - and then three other employees." The departure of the latter is not related to that of the manager, emphasizes Kammerl .

"She didn't pull the others along." She didn't know the reasons for the layoffs, but they were a private matter anyway.

The promise for the parents and the establishment of two new groups were "no longer tenable" due to the acute shortage of staff.

"We had no choice but to cancel."

City sets up “emergency phone” for parents

Two of the city's employees - including a specially hired educator - are now trying to accommodate the children in other facilities from September.

"They ask independent organizations, even beyond Starnberg," reports Kammerl.

On Tuesday afternoon, the deputy mayor received the news from her house that places had been found elsewhere for 17 of the 24 children.

This Wednesday, the parents should be informed about the care of their offspring.

On Monday, the city set up an "emergency phone" - also to create a priority list, as Kammerl says.

Places are allocated depending on "whether parents are single parents, for example, or whether one parent is regularly at home".

The developments around the Irmgard-Stadler-Kindergarten are very fast these days: On Tuesday, less than a week after the e-mail to the parents, Kammerl said that a new director had already been found and would be joining from the middle of the month - and that on September 1st another force would be hired.

Two personal details, which, however, are not enough to found the two groups again.

This may be possible if the city finds additional personnel.

"We search on all channels," says Kammerl.

The existing groups would continue to operate.

Almost 80 children attend the kindergarten, 112 places have actually been approved.

“We need additional staff anyway.

Everything is sewn to the edge, also in other kindergartens.

No one should be absent in the long term," emphasizes the Deputy Mayor.

At the end of May, Merkur reported that the situation had eased again and that the kindergarten had hired two new teachers.

Turnover is obviously high.

Because the facility had previously had to close one of four groups, and half of the positions were vacant.

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By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Starnberg newsletter.

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

Source: merkur

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