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Caring for children costs money.
Municipalities and churches do their part to ensure that attendance remains affordable for parents (symbolic image).
© , which was created in Holzkirchen – costs money.
Municipalities and the church do their part to ensure that attendance remains affordable for parents.
Photo: Thomas Plettenberg
There will probably not be an explosion in the price of childcare fees in the Miesbach district.
In Munich, private daycare providers announced a massive increase after the city decided to introduce a new funding system.
District – Monthly daycare fees of 1200 euros?
In Munich, providers of private childcare facilities announced this to parents after the city announced that it was changing its support system.
A court had declared the so-called Munich funding formula to be illegal, which is why the city will in future grant grants according to a deficit compensation system (we reported in the national section).
There will probably not be such high fees in the Miesbach district.
Deficit agreement
Most non-municipal daycare providers have long been working with deficit agreements to voluntarily support operating costs.
For example, the Catholic Kita Association Holzkirchen, which operates a total of five daycare centers in Otterfing, Oberwarngau, Wall and Holzkirchen.
As administrative manager Barbara Scheckenbach explains when asked, the daycare network has concluded operating agreements with all municipalities.
“This means that the municipalities cover a large part of the annual deficit.
The remaining part is subsidized by the Archbishop’s Finance Chamber,” explains Scheckenbach.
Parental contributions are an important pillar of daycare financing and are adjusted regularly.
“However, thanks to the support of the municipalities and the Archbishop Ordinariate, there is no risk of a price explosion.”
If major investments are necessary in the buildings, this is the responsibility of the owner.
In the Holzkirchen daycare network, this is only the municipality in one case - according to Scheckenbach, all other facilities are on church foundation or benefice land.
The church administration or the Archbishop's Ordinariate is responsible here, although the municipalities are also usually involved.
Child care as a municipal obligation
According to the Ordinariate's foundation supervision, the contractual agreements exist against the background that childcare is a municipal obligation.
Municipalities comply with this in collaboration with church and independent providers.
“It is important to many municipalities to offer a variety of providers locally,” says Scheckenbach.
Good cooperation includes participation in non-covered operating or building costs as well as agreements on opening times and daycare fees.
The aim is for all local providers to offer a similar level of fees.
“The system is stable as long as the increase in subsidies and parental contributions and the participation of the municipalities and the archdiocese keep pace with the general cost and wage increases in the daycare centers.”
In Holzkirchen, where, in addition to the Catholic Kita Association, other independent providers such as Caritas, a parents' initiative and Kinderland are active, there are also contractual agreements with the providers for voluntary operating cost support, as community spokeswoman Sissina Osorio Lamorù said when asked.
Weyarn
In the municipality of Weyarn, which does not operate its own daycare center but works exclusively with independent providers such as Kinderland, it is only necessary to cover the deficit in exceptional cases, as Mayor Leonhard Wöhr (CSU) explains: “We are very lucky that ours Providers that have been around for a long time work economically.” The municipality leases two of the three daycare buildings to the providers.
Wöhr considers price explosions like in Munich to be unlikely in Weyarn.
“But if a provider says I can no longer cover the costs, the municipality will have to deal with it.”
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