Controversial emergency operation in kindergarten - can parents' initiative help?
Created: 12/21/2022 8:36 am
By: Eva Strauss
Many municipalities suffer from a shortage of skilled workers in day-care centers.
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The shortage of staff in day-care centers is great.
In Egenhofen you now have to draw conclusions.
The emergency plan proposed by City Hall has met with severe criticism.
Egenhofen – Only an initiative from parents can perhaps prevent every fourth child from having to stay at home from January.
Stefanie Micko is angry - like many parents whose children attend the "Große Krümelkiste" kindergarten in Egenhofen.
Since there are currently only three specialists - including only one full-time employee - looking after the 41 children, not all care times can be covered.
An emergency plan was therefore developed.
"We only found out about it at the parents' evening," criticized Micko.
"They could have talked to us beforehand."
merge groups
Micko's son Emilian (3) can still visit the big crumb box, because the 32-year-old is a single parent and works.
Nevertheless, she says: "It's tough what needs to be done there."
The plan is as follows: From January, the two groups will be merged into one.
In this, 31 girls and boys can be cared for.
The remaining ten - these are children with one parent at home - can only come in the afternoon from 2 to 4 p.m.
alibi event
"This is an alibi event," explains municipal councilor Florian Dimmelmeier (NLE) to the daily newspaper.
As a kindergarten officer, parents' council and father, he is affected in several ways.
It annoys him that these children practically lose their place.
"That must not happen." For months he had pointed out that a personnel problem was headed for, but little had happened on the part of the town hall.
"It doesn't do me any good if I booked my son from 8am to 1pm and could bring him from 2pm to 4pm," he said.
And how should he explain to his son that he can no longer go to kindergarten?
"It's five past twelve," said Dimmelmeier at the most recent meeting of the municipal council, where the topic of kindergarten was discussed unscheduled.
Like Micko, he criticized that the parents had not been informed in advance.
Even he, as a kindergarten speaker, knew nothing about the emergency plan.
Partially open concept
The community and district office distance themselves from the closure of a group or that children lose their place.
When asked, the district authority said.
"In order to do justice to the continuous care and supervision of the children, the previously partially open concept will be completely opened up during the time of the emergency plan.
This makes it possible to absorb break times and a short absence of a supervisor.”
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In order to make it possible for all 41 children to continue to be able to visit the "Big Krümelkiste", parents have now become active.
The idea: Two children should share a place.
One child comes from Monday to Wednesday, the other from Thursday to Friday.
Corresponding questionnaires were distributed to the parents.
The evaluation is still pending, explains the chair of the parents' council, Daniela Huber.
"But it looks good."
Whatever happens, Stefanie Micko has already drawn her own conclusions from the shortage of staff in the "big crumb box".
She wants to place her son in the kindergarten in Egenburg in the neighboring district of Dachau.
The shortage of personnel there is not as great as in Egenhofen.
Parents' council offers closer cooperation
"The team in the kindergarten does superhuman things," said Daniela Huber, chairwoman of the parents' council in the current quarter hour in the Egenhofen municipal council.
She campaigned to bind the employees more closely to the facility.
"They deserve more than a thank you or a handshake."
The Parents' Council has also given some thought to recruiting staff.
"Not all possibilities have been exhausted," says Huber.
You have to place innovative job advertisements - not only in the municipal newspaper or in advertising journals, but also on online portals.
In addition, the homepage of the kindergarten had to be revised so that it was appealing to potential applicants.
"We have ideas and offer them," she appealed to the mayor and the municipal council.
"Please accept things."
In order to relieve the kindergarten management, an office worker should be employed, explained Mayor Martin Obermeier.
In general, the municipality, kindergarten and parents' council want to work more closely together.
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