In the district of Erding there is a lot of catching up to do when it comes to inclusion.
This became clear at a round table with MdL Johannes Becher.
Erding
– "How inclusive is the district?" was the topic at the Social Round Table, to which Green Member of Parliament Johannes Becher had invited in the Erdinger Weißbräu.
The moment he arrived at the S-Bahn station, he proved that he was serious.
Party colleague Cornelia Ermeier picked him up.
The Erdinger city councilor is in a wheelchair, Becher did the same and managed to get to town in a wheelchair too.
"A completely different perspective, very instructive," he concludes.
In addition to the blatant shortage of skilled workers, accessibility was one of the urgent topics of the discussion round, which was attended by around 20 citizens, including the two headmasters of the St. Nikolaus School, representatives of the Algasing workshop for the disabled and early intervention centers as well as city councilors and the second mayor Petra Bauernfeind.
Erding is “not at all barrier-free”, complained wheelchair user Daniela Born from Erding.
The cobblestones cause her great difficulty.
Bauernfeind asked for a little patience and reminded: "The newly designed Landshuter Straße is barrier-free." An attempt was also made there to create orientation for blind people.
If the city builds something now, it will be “barrier-free, of course.
We are there, but it takes time.”
Florian Geiger, municipal councilor in Isen, also said: "We are thinking about it, but it is often a big challenge." There are many inclines in Isen in particular.
Completely barrier-free is a utopia here, but low barriers would be something.
Gerhard Blenninger, inclusion officer and head of the Algasing funding facility, complained about the situation in Dorfen: "The gates exclude wheelchair users, they are not even accessible with a walker." Cornelia Ermeier praised the barrier-free bus stop at Kronthaler Weiher, but complained that the I only drive the bus during the week.
The Moosburger Becher also criticized the solutions that were not thought through to the end.
At many train stations, including Aufhausen, people with walking disabilities would have to make a long detour to get to their destination – or even turn around again.
Most of the posts were about children and school.
According to those present, the current situation is dramatic. Regina Hartl, head of the early support center in Dorfen, which is responsible for around 100 children, "it breaks my heart" that this year "more than ever before are left on their own at home without being cared for “.
The children of refugees are hit particularly hard.
The main problem here in the district is not even the lack of space, but the lack of skilled workers, which results from the increasing number of children to be cared for, the overload of the staff and bureaucratic hurdles.
For example, educators from abroad are often not recognized, Becher knew, adding: "But we are dependent on immigration here."
The daycare places at the Nikolausschule and the Montessori School in Erding also have waiting lists.
Enlarging the groups or classes was not a solution, as the conditions would deteriorate again, all those responsible agreed.
Georg Bauer, head of the St. Nikolaus School, is "brutally afraid" of the shortage of skilled workers in the special education area and the resulting burden on his colleagues, he said.
His deputy, Korbinian Müller, described the current situation in urgent words: “Parents come with a piece of paper on which the legal right to an inclusion place is written in black and white, and I have to turn them away.
Can you imagine that?” Daniela März, inclusion officer at the vocational school in Erding, demanded special educators in vocational schools too.
She sees how disadvantaged young people with disabilities are in this phase of their lives.
"We have to get the personnel problem under control," said Bauernfeind resolutely.
There was little time left for housing.
Here those present came to the conclusion that it only works through housing cooperatives, which already exist in the district of Erding.
Becher, who knew how to include everyone present in the discussion, stated: "Inclusion is everywhere and it concerns us all."
