Kappel in focus: youth welfare office plans daycare order and fewer places!

Kappel in focus: youth welfare office plans daycare order and fewer places!

in Chemnitz comes moving in the care of the little ones! On June 23, the youth welfare office of the city of Chemnitz invited the carriers of the day care centers in the Kappel district to advise on current challenges and common solutions. Representatives of various city council groups were also on site to support developments in early childhood education. Because this shows that the demand for childcare places does not always match the supply.

Currently there are seven daycare facilities in Kappel who take care of the care of crèche and kindergarten children. The providers include children, youth and family help e. V. Chemnitz and the Montessori Association, both of which play an important role in the offer. The Solaris Funding Center for Youth and Environment GGmbH Saxony and the Saxon Social Academy gGmbH are also decisive actors in this area.

overcapacity and solutions

In the advice, it was also found that there was an overcapacity in childcare places in relation to the births of living children. A clear need for action, which the youth welfare office and the sponsor now want to take on. The goal is to reduce around 150 care places and to improve the use of the existing infrastructures. The proposal of the Solari's funding center for a change concept provides for the redesign of the “Kappelino” children's home in order to offer more after -school places in the future.

It is particularly relevant that three institutions are already after-school places for the students of the Valentina Tereschkowa elementary school and Dr. Hold Salvador all-round elementary school. But the room situation at the Valentina Tereschkowa elementary school is tense. Qualitative restrictions on after-school care are foreseeable, which is why the planning for reducing the care places for crib and kindergarten children and the simultaneous creation of additional after-school care places are forced.

The daycare requirement plan

For the coming years, the daycare requirement plan will be targeted by further after-school places by 2025, especially since the Valentina-Tereschkowa elementary school will be expanded in three times from 2026. From January 1, 2026, places for a total of 22 children in crèche and kindergarten age will be provided in the “Glückkäfer” children and family center. In the summer of 2026, another 22 children also leave the "Kappelino" children's home, which also changes the situation.

Some of the essential points of the German daycare system emphasize how important the various sponsorships are for the development and needs of children. The difference between public and free providers is important, since the youth welfare office takes over the public sponsorship at the local level, while freelance organizations, often in the form of clubs or organizations, represent a large part of the care offers. The goal of early childhood education is to promote the development of the child and to support parents in professional life. This holistic funding mandate is a strength of the German care system, such as dji.de stands out.

These developments in Chemnitz show that a lot is in motion in the area of ​​early childhood education. The city council will decide on the new daycare requirement plan in the 4th quarter of 2025, and we can be excited to see what progress can then be expected. So it remains to be seen how the offers will develop in Kappel and adapt to the needs of families.