Kindergarten closure on holidays – bridge days

Many parents would like to be able to deliver their children to the daycare every day. Therefore, you do not always make yourself popular when you use the day care center. B. for summer holidays, for training or on bridging days. In order to avoid as much trouble with the parents as possible on this question, you should know the legal background.

Practical example: Hannes and Mattis are 1½ years old old and twins. You visit the Daycare center “Snapdragons”. In the last July and the first week of August are day care holidays. The mother complains to the management and thinks she has one after all Legal right to a childcare place. Holidays are in the law but not talking.

Legal background when the daycare center is closed

In principle, all children are legally entitled to a childcare place from the age of 1. This claim exists in principle, if you z. B. close during the summer vacation.

But that does not mean that you are not allowed to close the daycare center. The state daycare center laws usually stipulate a maximum number of closing days – in many federal states a maximum of 30. You must not exceed this. If you do so, you may even see government funding cut.

You should consider this before closing the daycare center

Find out here which legal requirements apply to day care holidays and what options you have to help parents with childcare bottlenecks.

Step 1: Check the daycare contract

First of all, you should check whether there are any closing times in your care contract. If these are not contractually agreed, you cannot close the facility easily.

Then the parents can request the proper fulfillment of the contract. Close the daycare without being a contractual one basis For this, the parents can, if they are looking for another childcare option for your child have to look around, demand compensation in the amount of the additional childcare costs incurred.

Step 2: Coordinate with other daycare centers

Would you like to use your daycare center for a longer period of time? B. for the summer holidays – close, it is advisable to coordinate with the daycare centers in the surrounding area and to make "agency agreements". If you close and the facilities in the neighborhood are delayed, you can offer the parents the opportunity to look after them in an "alternative daycare center". With such a “network”, you can also avoid childcare bottlenecks, e.g. B. on conception and bridge days.

Incidentally, such "cooperation agreements" do not necessarily have to be concluded between daycare centers of a sponsor. This can also be done across the board and is ultimately a “matter of negotiation” at management level. If you have found institutions that want to form such a “representation network” with you, you should inform your sponsor and the youth welfare office about this.

In terms of insurance, visiting a third-party day care center is no problem. The children are insured through the so-called "guest child regulation" through the statutory accident insurance.

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