CDU on families

The CDU wants to renovate daycare centers, create new places and hire more qualified staff. Opening hours are to be reliable so that parents can balance family and work. Daycare is to remain free of charge permanently.

The CDU wants to repair and modernize daycare centers. There should be more places and more staff. Daycare centers should be open reliably. Parents should still pay nothing for daycare.

Additional team staff are to help with organization and relieve educators of administrative work. A special program is planned for restrooms, kitchens and outdoor areas. Independent and church-run providers are to get transparent and reliable funding, and the state is to cover a larger share of municipalities' costs. The platform justifies free daycare by saying early education must not depend on income, especially since the final daycare year is to become mandatory.

The CDU wants more staff, smaller groups and longer opening hours in daycare centers and wants to expand vacation care statewide. Every new law is to be checked for its effects on families. Single parents are to get targeted support.

The CDU wants more staff in daycare centers. Groups should be smaller. Opening hours should fit parents' working hours. Every new law will be checked: Does it hurt families?

The family check is meant to keep new rules from disadvantaging families or adding burdens. Family centers would combine counseling, meeting space, early support and parent education. A statewide digital system for managing daycare and childminder places is to make the search easier for parents and relieve municipalities. The state's FamilienApp would be extended with the basic tier of a family accident insurance. Single parents are to get easier access to housing and relief services.

The CDU wants to expand child protection with a statewide strategy, a state competence center and Childhood Houses in every region. Prevention is to start early, for example through parenting courses, school social work and counseling centers.

The CDU wants to protect children better. Youth offices, schools and police should work together more closely. Every region will get a Childhood House. Children who have suffered violence get help there.

A state competence center would pool knowledge, strengthen research, train professionals and coordinate the work of authorities. In the Childhood Houses, affected children are to be cared for jointly by several professions in an age-appropriate and trauma-sensitive way. Pediatricians and children's hospitals are to be networked and developed into child protection clinics across the state. Mandatory protection concepts at schools will stay in place. Against youth crime, the CDU relies on early intervention, social work and faster court proceedings.