What do the parties in Hamburg say on families?

The AfD wants to exempt working families with low and middle incomes from certain costs at educational institutions, such as school lunches. They are also to receive tax relief through child tax allowances. The program sees an unfairness compared with families who receive welfare benefits.

Some families work but earn little. They get no help from the state. The AfD thinks this is unfair. These families should not pay for school lunch. They should also pay less tax.

The AfD wants mandatory medical checkups for children, with compliance monitored. Before starting school, children should attend a daily children's group for a year, compulsorily if their German is lacking. It also wants to improve staff-to-child ratios in Hamburg daycare, which it calls the worst in Germany.

Children should see a doctor regularly. The AfD wants to make these checkups required. Doctors should also look for signs of abuse. Before school, children should join a group for one year. Children with poor German must go to kindergarten.

Parents who care for their child at home during the first three years should receive compensation of at least half the cost of a daycare place. The AfD justifies this with freedom of choice and respect for domestic caregiving; daycare quality should also improve, with no more than six children per caregiver.

Some parents care for their small child at home. The AfD wants to pay them for it. They should get at least half of what a daycare spot costs. Parents should be free to choose. In daycare, one caregiver should look after six children at most.

The AfD wants families to be able to live on one full-time income and to give families priority when lowering taxes and levies. It seeks a return to traditional family values, with the family as the first source of support in hard times.

The AfD wants one salary to be enough for a family. Families should pay less in taxes and fees. Families should be able to save and buy a home again. Families should help each other in hard times.

The AfD wants mothers and fathers to receive full state support even after a family breaks up. Its child-friendly measures should also apply in full to single parents, and fathers should not be disadvantaged in custody and child support law.

Some families break apart. Mothers and fathers should still get help from the state. Single parents should not be treated worse. Fathers should be treated fairly in custody law. The mother's role stays important too.

The CDU wants to push in the Bundesrat for reversing the reform of Elterngeld (parental allowance), especially the lowered income ceiling. Self-employed people are also to be covered by Elterngeld as a rule. The stated aim is to ease financial and bureaucratic burdens on families.

The CDU wants to undo the changes to parental allowance. Parents with higher incomes should get it again. Self-employed people should get it too. Hamburg should push for this in the Bundesrat.

The CDU wants to improve the staff-to-child ratio in nurseries and give more support to childminders. To attract more skilled staff, training as a childcare worker is to be possible alongside a job and free of tuition everywhere.

The CDU wants more staff for small children in nurseries. Childminders should get more money and training. People should be able to train as childcare workers while working. The training should no longer cost tuition.

The CDU wants to keep and strengthen Hamburg's Kita-Gutschein-System (daycare voucher system). Payments to providers are to be reviewed scientifically and adjusted; a shared position for special-needs education is also planned.

In Hamburg, parents get a voucher for daycare. The CDU wants to keep this system. It wants experts to check whether daycare centers get enough money. Centers should also get help from special-needs educators. These are experts for children with disabilities.

The CDU wants to extend free daycare hours in Hamburg beyond the current five hours over the longer term. The platform justifies this with financial relief for families and easier access to childcare.

Today, five hours of daycare per day are free. The CDU wants to make more hours free later. This should save families money. Children should get a place more easily.

The CDU wants to work with providers to launch a website and app showing open daycare places and information about each center. This is meant to give families an overview and avoid multiple sign-ups on waiting lists.

The CDU wants an app for finding daycare places. The app shows open places and facts about each center. Parents then do not need to join many waiting lists. This saves them time.

The CDU wants to give open child and youth services more money and multi-year funding they can plan with. Family centers, outreach support and the “Frühe Hilfen Hamburg” (early support) program are to be strengthened. The platform argues that such services help spot social problems early and strengthen child protection.

The CDU wants to give more money to youth clubs and similar services. The money should be secure for several years. Meeting places for families should also get stronger. Parents in hard situations should get help early.

The CDU wants to spend more on maintaining and renewing public playgrounds and install more inclusive play equipment. Every district is to get at least one inclusive playground, and every neighborhood one with areas for young children.

Many playgrounds in Hamburg are in poor condition. The CDU wants to spend more money on playgrounds. There should be more equipment for children with disabilities. There should also be more toilets at playgrounds.

The CDU wants to implement the recommendations of the commission of inquiry on child protection and go beyond them. Youth welfare offices are to be monitored continuously, the organization of youth welfare reviewed from the ground up, and the child and youth emergency service better resourced. The platform cites deaths in which, it says, state child protection failed.

The CDU wants to protect children better. Youth welfare offices should be checked regularly. The emergency service for children should get more money, staff and rooms. Foster parents should get more help.

The CDU wants Hamburg to once again provide its own places in secure residential care with an educational focus. In the platform's view, the city would thereby take responsibility for young people who need this kind of placement.

Some young people need a home they cannot freely leave. The CDU wants Hamburg to offer such places itself. The city should take care of these young people. Trained educators should work with them there.

The Greens want to set a legal target that every playground gets inclusive play equipment. District sports facilities are to be modernized and their allocation made simpler.

All children should be able to play on playgrounds. This includes children with disabilities. The Greens want to write this into a law. Sports fields should get modern artificial turf.

The Greens want to inform parents better about childcare and actively reach out to families who are distant from the education system. Social work in daycare centers would advise families and relieve staff. The goal is a childcare offer close to home for all parents.

Not all parents know what daycare centers offer. The Greens want better information, also in several languages. Experts should go to families. Daycare centers should have social workers. Every family should find a daycare center nearby.

The Greens want to gear the Kita-Gutschein (daycare voucher) system more to the child's needs. If parents' circumstances change, for instance through a new sibling or job loss, the voucher would stay unchanged for a year instead of four months as now. Single parents could apply for eight hours of care even without a job.

In Hamburg, parents get a voucher for daycare. If a parent loses a job, the voucher shrinks after 4 months today. The Greens want it to stay the same for one year. Single parents should always be able to get 8 hours of daycare.

The Greens want to raise the free legal entitlement to childcare from five to six hours a day. Every child would receive the voucher at birth, valid until starting school. This is meant to improve educational opportunities, make part-time work possible for parents and cut red tape.

Today children have a right to 5 free hours of daycare a day. The Greens want 6 hours. Every child should get the voucher at birth. It is valid until school starts. Parents then need to fill out fewer forms.

The Greens want to advocate at the federal level for a Kindergrundsicherung (basic child allowance). The platform justifies this by saying about one in four children in Hamburg lives in poverty and background too often determines opportunity.

About one in four children in Hamburg is poor. So the Greens want a basic child allowance. That is money for children from the state. Offices should reach out to families on their own.

The Greens want to raise funding for open child and youth work and shift youth services funding from time-limited projects to long-term financing. This is meant to end insecure jobs and retain skilled staff.

Youth centers and play houses should get more money. So far the money often comes only for a short time. The Greens want it to flow permanently. That gives workers secure jobs.

The Greens want to keep supporting young people who grew up in residential care or foster families after they turn 18. Further plans concern guardianships, parents with learning difficulties and people who suffered violence in care homes.

Some young people grow up in care homes or foster families. They should still get help as adults. Parents with intellectual disabilities should get another housing project. Victims of violence in care homes should receive recognition.

The Greens want to strengthen the protection of children against violence, neglect and exploitation. To that end, another child protection center is to be set up, agencies are to work together more closely, and youth welfare offices are to have enough staff.

The Greens want to protect children better from violence. There should be one more child protection center. Agencies, daycare centers and courts should work together more closely. Parents should get help with raising children. Youth welfare offices should have enough staff.

The Greens want to set up an alliance for good education and reliable childcare. Daycare providers, parents, staff and unions would work out joint steps to address the shortage of skilled workers in daycare centers.

Hamburg's daycare centers do not have enough trained staff. The Greens want to form an alliance. Daycare providers, parents, staff and unions will talk there. Together they will look for solutions.

The Greens want to keep supporting the Childhood-Haus for children who are victims or witnesses in criminal proceedings. Protection against violence is to be strengthened in family court cases. The platform sees mothers' rights at risk from the influence of so-called “fathers' rights” activists.

Children are sometimes victims or witnesses in court. The Childhood-Haus exists for them. The Greens want to keep supporting it. Family courts should protect people better from violence.

The Left wants eight hours of basic daycare for every child, plus early and late shifts where needed. Daycare centers would be funded according to need so that children have equal opportunities regardless of background.

The Left wants eight hours of daycare a day for every child. Early and late care would be offered when needed. Breakfast at daycare would be free. Daycare centers would get enough money.

The Left wants to double funding for open child and youth work, youth social work and family support. Expansion would focus on areas with few facilities or where many people live in poverty.

The Left wants twice as much money for youth centers and family support. There would be more places for children and teens to meet. Poor neighborhoods would come first. Children and teens would have a say in their districts.

The Left wants to ban deprivation of liberty and locked facilities in youth welfare and rejects the planned facility at Klotzenmoorstieg. Instead, youth welfare services and psychiatry would cooperate more closely and decentralized services would be set up.

The Left does not want locked homes for young people. No one in youth welfare should be locked up. A planned home at Klotzenmoorstieg should not be built. There would be smaller services in many places instead.

The SPD wants to keep five hours of daycare and childminder care per day free of charge. It also wants to strengthen care in early and late hours and extend how long a daycare voucher is valid.

Five hours of daycare a day are free in Hamburg. The SPD wants to keep it that way. Daycare should offer more care early and late in the day. The daycare voucher should be valid for longer.

The SPD wants to keep spending more than one billion euros a year on daycare and early education. This includes a renovation program, extra support for daycare centers in disadvantaged neighborhoods and more places for children with special needs.

The SPD wants to spend a lot of money on daycare. It should be more than one billion euros a year. Daycare buildings should be renovated. Centers in poorer neighborhoods get extra help. Children with disabilities should get more places.

The SPD wants to train more early childhood educators and make entry into the profession more flexible. It advocates appropriate pay under collective agreements.

Daycare centers need more educators. The SPD wants to create more training places. People from other jobs should be able to switch more easily. Foreign degrees should be recognized more easily. Pay should follow union wage agreements.

The SPD wants to expand parent-child centers and family counseling and to support all types of families. At the federal level it advocates adjusting financial benefits for families and fighting child poverty.

Families should get more counseling. There should be more parent-child centers. The SPD wants to support all kinds of families. It also wants the federal government to help families better with money. Fewer children should be poor.

The SPD wants to better protect children from neglect, violence and sexual abuse. To that end, the Allgemeiner Sozialer Dienst (general social service) is to be refocused and agencies are to cooperate more closely.

Children should be safe from violence and abuse. The city's social service should work closer to families. Youth office, schools, daycare and police should work together better. There should be more places for children in need.