As of: March 26, 2024, 5:00 p.m
By: Wolfgang Schnetz
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Legal claim all day: (from left) Kathrin Wiedemann and Stephanie Rummel (both from the government of Upper Bavaria), district administrator Helmut Petz, Daniela Mertl (Department 5 Youth and Family), school district director Sigrid Heck and Barbara Berger (education region) in the large meeting room of the Freising district office .
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The course must be set for the expansion of all-day care.
There was now important information for the municipalities in the district office.
District
- In order to support the communities in the mammoth task of "expanding all-day care", the state school authority in the Freising district, Department 5 Youth and Family, in cooperation with the educational region office, invited people to the information event "Legal entitlement to full-day care".
The legal claim
From August 1, 2026, a legal right to all-day care for children of primary school age will be gradually introduced nationwide - initially for first graders in the 2026/27 school year and continuing until the 2029/30 school year for all children in the first to fourth grades.
“This extends the legal right to early childhood support in a day care center for children from the age of one until the end of primary school,” reports district spokesman Tobias Grießer.
“The addressee of this legal right is the public youth welfare provider, i.e. the district,” explained District Administrator Helmut Petz in his welcome.
Kathrin Wiedemann from the government of Upper Bavaria presented which offers should be considered and which legal, financial and organizational framework conditions need to be taken into account.
She explained the differences between tied all-day, open all-day, after-school care and lunchtime care.
Daniela Mertl from the Office for Youth and Family showed that primary school children in the Freising district are currently mainly accommodated in lunchtime care and after-school care.
The current care rate is 58 percent, although the municipalities have very different rates.
The question round
Those responsible from the communities had questions for Kathrin Wiedemann.
The financing of childcare places in particular poses major challenges for municipalities.
There was also criticism that there could only be a total of 20 closing days including holiday periods - and this was due to an acute shortage of skilled workers.
After the presentations, Sigrid Heck, director of the Freising State School Office, invited the community representatives to take a break at various partition walls.
Here you could exchange ideas with practical representatives of every type of care in the district and get to know feasible examples.