The Kita Quality Act will be further developed – says MP Marcel Emmerich

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Marcel Emmerich, member of the Green Party of the Bundestag for Ulm and the Alb-Donau region, commented on the daycare quality law approved by the coalition:

“With the new Kita Quality Act, we are fulfilling the main promise of the consortium agreement. We continue to invest in early childhood education and therefore also in the compatibility of work and family life as well as the backbone of our economy. and high quality early childhood education strengthens equal opportunities for our little ones, reliability for families and planning in companies Every euro we invest in our little people today pays off quadrupling with this decision, we also support and relieve the burden of many children and families in Ulm and the Alb-Donau region Skilled workers and workers in the day care centers our Despite the tight budget situation, the federal government is investing four billion euros in 2025 and 2026 to support the states that the Minister of the Family Lisa Paus has achieved important success here with the law the quality of day care that is improved focuses more on their educational work and the recruitment of skilled workers is encouraged in particular. With the law we are also preparing national quality standards. A key development in the law is the 100% focus on quality.

This means that more money will go into hiring skilled workers, the skilled worker-child ratio and language education. We made further improvements to the draft law in the parliamentary process: We added two additional focal points to the focus on hiring skilled workers: language education and the skilled worker-child ratio. This is correct and important. With the latter in particular, we will allow countries to take drastic measures against high levels of downtime.

As Alliance Greens, we continue to advocate for three things: both high-level and long-term investments in early childhood education and national quality standards. Every child has the right to a quality early childhood education, which is the foundation for their future educational path and future.” Background: Content: Since 2019, the federal government has been providing support to the states with the Kita Quality Improvement and Participation Act (KiQuTG) in improving the quality in day care centers and child day care as well as improving participation in early education. childhood

So far, the states have been able to take measures from ten areas of qualitative action and relieve parents from the cost contributions.

Central changes to the 3rd Enhanced Day Care Quality Act compared to the 2nd Day Care Quality Act: In the future, the law will focus in particular on seven areas of action that are particularly important for quality. In the future, national quality standards are sought in these functional areas:

• Offer according to needs

• Child key specialist

• Attracting and securing qualified specialists

• Strengthen leadership

• Promoting needs-based, balanced and sustainable nutrition and sufficient exercise

• Promoting language education

• Strengthening children’s day care → The three remaining areas of action (spatial planning, improving system control and overcoming content challenges) will not be apart from the possibility of using federal funds for measures to grant its reduction applies further in the future.

→ To give the states time to change course, all the steps that the states agreed to in the contracts with the federal government before the end of 2024 can be followed for a transition phase until December 31, 2025. The states can then keep continue to make their own steps in the other functional areas and to reduce contributions.

→ Prerequisite for early childhood education and good quality care offers are qualified specialists. The law therefore adds the requirement that states must always take at least one step to attract and secure skilled workers within the framework of the KiQuTG.

→ To compensate for additional liabilities, the federal government will support the states with a total of around four billion euros in 2025 and 2026.”