Grüne on families

The Greens want to expand child and family centers that offer counseling, in order to ease the load on families whatever their way of organizing work and home life. They also plan to examine funding for social-work services and easy-access parent counseling in daycare centers.

The Greens want to help families more. There should be more child and family centers. Parents can get advice there. Daycare centers may also offer advice for parents. The Greens want to check this.

In the platform's view, every family should be free to choose its own model for work and daily life and get support in doing so. The centers are to be expanded with counseling services. Funding for social-work services and low-threshold parent counseling in daycare centers is to be examined, starting in places facing particular challenges.

The Greens want to make the last daycare year before school both compulsory and free of charge. In addition, the state is to put more money into daycare so that fees rise less, and to point to income-based fees as a route to greater fairness.

The Greens want the last daycare year to be free. All children must attend this year. The state should pay more for daycare. Then fees will not rise as much. Families with less money should pay less.

The platform names fully free daycare as the long-term goal and sees income-based fees as a compromise between that goal and good quality. The state is to relieve municipalities and improve daycare funding from state funds to limit fee increases. As the next step, a compulsory and fee-free final daycare year is planned so that all children receive support before starting school. Funding of all-day care is to be reviewed again as the legal entitlement takes effect.

The Greens want to further strengthen the protection of children from violence, including online. A state survivors' council is meant to bring the perspective of people affected by sexualized violence permanently into policymaking. Counseling and support for families and networks against child poverty are to be expanded.

The Greens want to protect children better from violence. This also applies online. People who were affected should have a say in a council. Families should easily find advice and help. There should be networks against child poverty everywhere.

The regional child protection networks, so far pilot projects, would continue and their findings be applied statewide. Children's hospitals are to get accredited multi-professional child protection teams, and training on protection concepts for teachers would be expanded. For the digital sphere, the party relies on education, media literacy and clear legal rules. The family support strategy is meant to secure easily accessible help, and regional prevention networks against child poverty are to be set up statewide.