What do the parties in Bremen say 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 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 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.

The CDU wants to fund daycare centers through fees paid via vouchers rather than grants, as Hamburg does. Expansion of places should be faster, including with private investors. The platform argues this removes long planning processes and complex reviews.

The CDU wants to pay for daycare in a new way. There should be daycare vouchers, like in Hamburg. New daycare places should be built faster. Private investors should help too.

The CDU wants to cut the qualification period for family daycare providers from nine months to two to three months and pay trainees from the start. A central service office would take over their paperwork so they have more time for working with children.

Family daycare providers should be trained faster. Training should take only 2 to 3 months. They should be paid during training. One office should do their paperwork for them.

The CDU wants to fix the staff shortage in daycare, which the platform says leaves more than 600 finished places unusable. To do so, it wants to make the educator profession more attractive and easier to enter.

Bremen does not have enough daycare teachers. So finished daycare places stay empty. The CDU wants to win more people for the job. Getting into the job should be easier.

The CDU wants the city of Bremen to send a welcome package to families with newborns on its own initiative. People who move to Bremen or Bremerhaven are also to receive a package. The party speaks of a different culture of welcome.

The CDU wants a package for every new baby in Bremen. The city sends the package to the family itself. New residents should also get a package. It contains key information and vouchers.

The CDU wants to bundle benefits and advice for families and make them available digitally. In the platform's view, red tape and waiting times cost families time together.

The CDU wants families to get benefits more easily. There should be one single place for this. Applications and advice should be available online. This saves families time.

The CDU wants to help single parents into work through education, childcare, and help with child support. The goal is for them to become independent of state income support; the platform points to low labor force participation and high child poverty in this group.

The CDU wants to help single parents. They should be able to do job training, also part-time. They should get daycare places first. Public offices should help them get child support.

The CDU wants to improve child protection and put the youth welfare office on a more stable footing in staffing and organization. This includes more case managers and official guardians, constant reachability and a shared understanding of when a child's welfare is at risk. Unaccompanied foreign minors are again to be distributed among the states under the Königsteiner Schlüssel (the national allocation formula).

The CDU wants to protect children better. The youth welfare office should get more staff. People should always be able to reach it. All offices should agree on when a child is in danger. Young refugees without parents should be spread across all German states.

The FDP wants to extend daycare opening hours substantially and abolish the fixed closure days in nurseries and kindergartens. Care should be available when parents need it, including those working full time or in shifts.

Daycare centers should stay open longer. Each district should have one center open from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. There should also be centers open day and night. The FDP also wants to end fixed closure days. Then parents can plan their vacation freely.

The FDP supports fee-free daycare, including nurseries, after-school care, and early and late hours. Parents should continue to decide whether their child attends; the party rejects compulsory daycare years.

Parents should not pay for daycare. This should also apply to nurseries and after-school care. Quality should not get worse. Parents should decide if their child goes to daycare. The FDP does not want to make daycare compulsory.

The FDP wants to introduce a Kinderchancengeld (child opportunity benefit) that combines and simplifies existing child-related benefits. It would consist of a base amount, an income-dependent amount and digital access to education and participation services. The program justifies this with the high rate of child poverty in the state of Bremen.

The FDP wants a new child opportunity benefit. It combines all support for children into one. Every child gets a fixed amount. Families with little money get more. Parents can apply online for help with education and leisure.

The FDP wants less red tape and digital procedures for Elterngeld (parental allowance) and a more flexible partnership bonus. Elterngeld and ElterngeldPlus should fit families' real lives better. In the future, only one parent at a time should be able to receive the allowance.

The FDP wants to make parental allowance simpler. Parents should be able to apply online. The bonus for couples should become more flexible. Only one parent at a time should get the allowance.

The FDP wants to strengthen funding for open child and youth work and use it more flexibly according to need. It also wants more leisure options for young people and a future plan for youth services in Bremerhaven.

Open child and youth work offers meeting places and help for young people. The FDP wants to strengthen it. The money should go where it is needed. There should be more things to do in free time. In Bremerhaven, young people should help decide on the offers.

The FDP wants to support single parents through reliable childcare, lower taxes and fees, and job training. The state would also recover far more of its advance child support payments from parents who fail to pay.

The FDP wants to help parents who raise children alone. There should be reliable childcare for children of every age. These parents should pay less in taxes and fees. If a parent does not pay child support, the state pays instead. The FDP wants the state to get that money back more often.

The FDP wants to continue the renovation program for children's playgrounds in Bremen and Bremerhaven. Public sports fields would be expanded and playgrounds enlarged with new equipment.

The FDP wants playgrounds to be repaired regularly. There should be new play equipment. Public sports fields should get bigger. This applies to Bremen and Bremerhaven.

The Greens want to ease single parents' path into work through part-time vocational training, family-friendly working hours and flexible childcare. The platform justifies this with the high poverty risk of this group in the state of Bremen.

Single parents are often poor. The Greens want to help them. There should be more part-time job training. Daycare should also be open early and late. Working hours should fit families better.

The Greens want to better coordinate and expand support for families with young children across government departments. Family education institutions are to receive more money and staff. According to the platform, this is meant to prevent poverty and relieve the youth welfare office.

The Greens want to help families with small children early. Government offices should work together better. Family centers and mothers' centers should get more money. They should also get more staff. This should help prevent poverty.

The Greens want parents to receive educational offerings and support at every daycare center. The program argues that the family is the central place where children are raised. Interpreting services and German courses for parents are to complement this.

The Greens want to give parents more support. Every daycare center should have offerings for parents. Topics include health and media use. Interpreters should help. German courses for parents should continue.

The Greens want to expand daycare faster. The goal is a place for every child over three and for 66 percent of children under three in every district. Until then, children without a place are to get a basic early education offering.

The Greens want to build new daycare centers faster. Every child over three should get a place. For younger children, the goal is 66 percent. This should apply in every district. Children without a place should get another offering until then.

The Greens want longer care hours so that all parents can work, including full-time. Single parents are to get a right to eight hours of care per day. The fixed enrollment date tied to the daycare year is to be dropped in the medium term.

The Greens want longer hours at daycare centers. This lets parents work full-time. Single parents should get a right to eight hours a day. Children should be able to start daycare in the middle of the year.

The Greens want a statewide strategy that coordinates the existing ways for young people to take part in decisions. According to the platform, there are many options but no joint planning.

Young people in Bremen can have a say in many places. But these options are not well coordinated. So the Greens want one shared plan. Young people should help write the plan.

The Greens want more programs that prevent violence against children and want to strengthen parents' child-rearing skills. The platform attributes violence in many cases to a lack of knowledge and to caregivers being overwhelmed.

Too many children experience violence. The Greens want more programs to prevent it. Parents should get more advice. Counseling centers should work together better.

The Greens want to press at the federal level for a model called Elternvollzeit (parental full-time). Both parents would cut their working hours at the same time and receive compensation for lost pay.

The Greens want a new model for parents. Both parents work fewer hours at the same time. They still get money to make up for lost pay. Single parents should be able to use it too.

The Greens want urban development to focus more on children, young people and families. This includes play streets, more play areas and places for young people to meet without having to buy anything.

Children need safe places to play. The Greens want play streets in front of daycare centers and schools. Schoolyards should also be open in the afternoon and on weekends. Young people should get places where they can meet.

The Greens want to keep funding youth centers, youth clubs and open youth work and to improve their quality. In neighborhoods where the number of young people has risen sharply and need is high, new leisure and sports options are to be created. Neighborhood farms are to get their own stable funding.

The Greens want to keep funding youth centers and youth clubs. Many young people spend their free time there. Some neighborhoods now have many more young people. These areas should get new offers. All young people should be able to enter the buildings without barriers.

The Greens want the youth welfare office to be adequately staffed and want to retain new employees through on-the-job training and support. The same is to apply to independent providers. Funding for volunteer work in clubs and youth associations is also to rise.

The youth welfare office should have enough staff. New staff should stay and get further training. This also applies to other youth service providers. The Greens also want more funding for volunteers in clubs. Volunteers are people who help without pay.

At the federal level, the Left advocates a sanction-free Kindergrundsicherung (basic child allowance) of currently 695 euros. Poor families are to get the most support, with the benefit falling as income rises.

Many children in Bremen are poor. The Left wants a basic child allowance. Poor children should get 695 euros. Families with more money get less. There should be no cuts as punishment.

The Left wants to fight child poverty at the state level with free services. Children and teenagers receiving basic income support are to get free admission to pools, libraries, and cultural institutions.

Poor children should be able to go to the pool for free. Libraries and culture should also be free for them. Daycare centers in poor neighborhoods should offer free breakfast. Parents should get more days off for sick children.

The Left wants more and better play areas and plans to raise city investment in them by half. Children are to be involved in the planning.

Children need good playgrounds. The city should spend more money on them. All playgrounds should be in good condition. Children from the neighborhood should have a say in the planning.

The Left wants to strengthen youth welfare office staffing and expand residential youth care places over the long term. It rejects for-profit providers, and people who suffered violence in closed facilities are to be compensated.

The youth welfare office should get more staff. There should be more places for children and teenagers in need. Companies should not make profit from youth welfare. People who suffered violence in a home should get compensation.

The Left wants to continue and expand state programs for single parents so they can complete qualifications and take up work. A new care card is meant to give people who do a lot of unpaid care work priority access and discounts.

Single parents often have a hard time. The Left wants to help them more. They should be able to finish school and training. A new card should bring benefits. The card is for people who do a lot of unpaid care for others.

The Left wants Bremen to push in the Bundesrat for a law of parentage that does not disadvantage lesbian and transgender parents. Health insurers should also pay for fertility treatment for queer families.

Some children have two mothers or trans parents. These families have fewer rights today. The Left wants to change that. Health insurance should also help them have children.

By 2025, the Left wants daycare places in every district for 60 percent of children under three and for all older children until they start school. The expansion should fail neither for lack of money nor because of the debt brake.

Bremen lacks many daycare places. Poor districts lack the most. The Left wants enough places by 2025. Every child over three should have a place.

The Left wants to create child and family centers as open contact points in the districts. They are to offer free services on health, parenting and early education. Existing open services such as play houses are to be kept and expanded.

The Left wants centers for children and families in the districts. They offer free help and advice. Parents can meet there. There should also be more family midwives.

The Left wants childcare to be available early, late and for parents with irregular working hours. Home-based childcare (Kindertagespflege) is to be better paid and expanded so that it helps shift workers, for example.

Some parents work early, late or in shifts. The Left wants suitable childcare for them. Each district should have one center for that. Childminders should be paid better.

The Left rejects for-profit daycare operators and construction by private investors. At least every second new daycare center should be built by the public sector; operators should be municipal, non-profit or parent associations.

The Left does not want companies to make profit from daycare. The city should build at least every second new daycare center itself. Daycare should be run by the city, non-profits or parent groups.

The Left wants to secure funding for open youth work in all districts and equip it better. Young people should get more room to organize themselves and more say, for example through youth councils.

Young people need places where they feel safe. The Left wants well-equipped youth centers in all districts. Young people should also be able to organize things themselves. They should have more say.

The SPD names fighting child poverty as its top priority and wants lasting financial security for young people. Since Bremen cannot achieve this alone, it wants to press at the federal level for a swift and adequately funded Kindergrundsicherung (basic child allowance).

In Bremen, one in five children grows up poor. The SPD wants to change that. Bremen cannot do it alone. So the federal government should quickly bring in the Kindergrundsicherung. That is a new payment for children. It should be high enough.

The SPD wants to give youth welfare offices the staff and money they need and expand preventive support for families. Child protection is not to be cut back even when budgets are tight.

Youth welfare offices help children and families in need. The SPD wants to give them enough staff and money. Families should get help early. Children should stay with their family where possible. Bremen should not save money on protecting children.

The SPD wants to examine whether foster parents in Bremen can receive a benefit comparable to Elterngeld (parental allowance). At the federal level it is pressing for social insurance options for emergency foster care and possibly full-time foster care.

Foster parents take other people's children into their home. Often one parent stays home to do this. But foster parents get no parental allowance. The SPD wants to check whether Bremen can pay them something similar. They should also have better insurance.

The SPD wants to continue and expand the "Freikarte" for leisure activities if it is well used. The youth ticket for public transit is to be funded permanently, and support against the effects of the pandemic on children is to be reviewed and partly continued.

Children and teens in Bremen have a free card for leisure activities. The SPD wants to keep it if many use it. The youth ticket for buses and trains should stay too. Children suffered during Covid. Good support for them should continue.

The SPD wants to fund counseling and meeting places for single-parent families on a lasting basis and close gaps. Support is to aim more at stabilizing people's lives over the longer term rather than only at quick job placement.

Many mothers and fathers in Bremen live alone with their children. There are counseling services and meeting places for them. The SPD wants to pay for these reliably. Where something is missing, new services should be added. Everyone should know where to find help.

The SPD wants to launch a pilot project giving single parents, and possibly older people, vouchers for household services. It is meant to ease everyday life and at the same time promote employment in this field.

Single parents have a lot to manage every day. The SPD wants to give them vouchers for help at home. Older people may get such vouchers too. For now this is a trial. It should also create new jobs.

The SPD wants to make it easier for single parents to get childcare and to tailor labor market policy to them. This includes more part-time vocational training, a qualification drive and special offers for immigrant single mothers.

Single parents need a childcare spot. The SPD wants to help them find one. There should be more spots, also early and late in the day. Single parents should find it easier to do part-time job training. Immigrant mothers should get special help.

The SPD wants to better inform parents with physical or intellectual disabilities or psychiatric illnesses about their rights. According to the platform, the legally established parental assistance is often not put into practice.

Some parents have a disability or a mental illness. They have a right to help with raising their children. This help is called parental assistance. Many parents do not get it. The SPD wants to tell parents more about their rights.

The SPD wants to keep expanding childcare places, including at early and late hours, because it sees this as the key to equality for women in the labor market. The public sector is to lead the way on balancing work and private life.

The SPD wants more childcare places. Care should also be open early in the morning and late in the day. This lets more women work. Public offices should become very family-friendly.

The SPD wants more playgrounds, exercise areas, and meeting places for young people in every neighborhood, all free to use. No child should be disadvantaged in leisure options because of where they live or their parents' income. Young people are to help shape these spaces.

Children and teens need places to play and meet. The SPD wants more such places in all neighborhoods. Using them should cost nothing. Young people should have a say in the planning.

The SPD wants to continue open youth work and fund it noticeably better. Every district is to receive a base amount, with additional money allocated according to local need. Facilities for girls are to be secured and grant procedures simplified.

The SPD wants more money for open youth work. Every district should get at least 100,000 euros. Districts with more problems should get more. Girls' centers should also be able to keep working safely.