BIW on families

The BIW wants to ease staff shortages in daycare centers by using trained assistants who have experience raising children themselves. Kindergartens and nurseries would open more flexibly to relieve working parents. Company daycare and home-based care would be supported.

Daycare centers lack staff. So the BIW wants to use assistants. These people have raised children themselves. Daycare centers should have more flexible hours. Company daycare should also get support.

The assistants would receive professional instruction and support qualified educators and social-pedagogical aides. The aim is an adequate ratio of trained staff to children. Alongside public daycare, the BIW wants to promote company-run kindergartens. Home-based childcare, for example through volunteer neighborhood projects, would be added.

The BIW wants to protect children better against neglect and abuse. Preventive checkups would become mandatory, and youth welfare caseworkers would gain more powers. Children of parents addicted to alcohol or drugs would live in homes or foster families.

The BIW wants to protect children better. All small children must see a doctor regularly. This way injuries are noticed early. The youth welfare office should be able to step in faster. Children of addicted parents should live elsewhere.

The child's welfare is to guide all action by authorities. Regular, compulsory examinations in infancy and childhood are meant to reveal signs of violence early. Children whose parents are dependent on alcohol or drugs would be placed in homes or foster families for their protection. Youth welfare caseworkers would receive expanded rights so they can act quickly when there is suspicion.

The BIW wants to achieve a general alcohol ban for minors via the Bundesrat. Retailers would be checked with underage test buyers and face higher fines for violations. At schools, drug dealing would lead to expulsion and prevention would be expanded.

The BIW wants to ban alcohol for everyone under 18. Young test buyers should check stores. Stores should pay higher fines for breaking the rules. Anyone offering drugs at school must leave the school.

Bremen would launch an initiative in the Bundesrat for the nationwide ban. Regular test purchases by minors would check whether retailers obey the sales ban, and fines under youth protection and licensing law would rise. Students who offer narcotics at school would be expelled. Education about illegal drugs, alcohol and nicotine would be stepped up in schools and youth facilities together with the police, guided by the ideal of a drug-free life.