Strengthen daycare and phase out fees
The BSW wants better funding and staffing for daycare centers (Kitas) and no increase in parental fees. In the long run daycare would be free, and lunch in daycare centers and elementary schools would cost nothing. Falling child numbers should be used to improve care, not to close centers.
The BSW does not want to raise daycare fees. Later, daycare should cost nothing at all. Lunch in daycare and elementary school should be free. Each staff member should look after fewer children than today.
According to the platform, a daycare worker in Saxony looks after three more children on average than the national average. The decline in child numbers should therefore lead to better staffing ratios rather than closures. The state would pay for at least the last preschool year. Career changers would get easier access to daycare jobs through training. The BSW says the widely varying fees burden low-income families in particular.
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„Wir werden Kita-Beiträge nicht erhöhen, langfristig wollen wir Beitragsfreiheit erreichen.“Translation: We will not raise daycare fees; in the long term we want to make daycare free of charge.
Placement
- Economyleaning more state
Free lunches, more staff and the long-term goal of fee-free daycare expand publicly funded services for families.