Grüne on families

The Greens want to reduce daycare costs for parents. They propose a cap on parent fees and advocate free lunch in daycare as well as a fee-free final daycare year. Daycare costs should be shared fairly among the state, municipalities and parents.

Parents should pay less for daycare. The Greens want a limit on the fees. Lunch in daycare should be free. The last year of daycare should be free too.

All facilities should receive adequate basic funding. Fees should become more comparable across municipalities, and the same rules for reductions and exemptions should apply everywhere. For after-school care centers, additional state grants are planned that depend on social conditions and the individual facility and can be paid as a budget or as extra staff hours. Daycare centers should also open up more to their neighborhoods and link with family education; child and family centers are to be expanded further.

The Greens want minimum standards for child and youth services that apply across Saxony, because they see resources as unevenly distributed among counties. Youth work and youth associations would get reliable funding, and child protection would be expanded.

Youth services are not equally good everywhere in Saxony. The Greens want the same minimum rules for the whole state. Youth groups should get steady funding. Children should be better protected from violence.

The Jugendpauschale (the state's flat-rate youth grant) would be developed further, and youth associations would receive long-term basic funding, including for administrative staff. Leisure, sports and education sites would set up protection procedures against violence, with specially trained advisers. Services against sexualized violence would be shown on a digital map and expanded in underserved areas. Children's rights offices or mobile services are planned for rural regions, and youth councils would get continuous funding. A workshop of experts and affected people would look for new approaches to child-rearing support.

The Greens want to expand child and family centers at daycare centers and schools across the state so that family education reaches all families easily. For them, family is wherever people take responsibility for one another, in all its forms.

Families should find advice and help easily. The Greens want more family centers in daycare centers and schools. Counseling should also be easy to reach in rural areas. For the Greens, all kinds of families belong.

The platform explicitly names single parents, queer families and families with people with disabilities. In rural areas, decentralized concepts would make counseling easier to reach, and digital services would be strengthened for families in conflict. Foster families would be supported through guidance, publicity campaigns and financial security. Outreach counseling is meant to make sure benefits are actually claimed. Mobile services are also planned for homeless people.

The Greens want to scrap Saxony's Landeserziehungsgeld (state child-raising allowance) and redirect the money to reconciling family and work, especially daycare that also covers early and late hours. At the federal level they back a basic child allowance that reaches all children.

Saxony pays parents a state child-raising allowance. The Greens want to end this payment. The money should go to better daycare. Daycare centers should also open early and late. The Greens also want a basic child allowance for all of Germany.

The freed-up funds would also serve the particular needs of single parents and self-employed parents. The platform files the plan under fighting poverty and names fair opportunities and social security as the goal. The basic child allowance is meant to ensure children grow up well regardless of their parents' income.