What do the parties in Schleswig-Holstein say on families?

The CDU wants Schleswig-Holstein to lead Germany in the ratio of qualified staff to children in daycare centers by 2027. According to the platform, this requires enough well-trained staff and good working conditions.

The CDU wants more trained staff in daycare centers. Each staff member should care for fewer children. By 2027, the state should be at the very top in Germany. This takes enough well-trained people.

The CDU wants to further lower the fees parents pay for childcare. Low-income families and families with several children in particular are to get relief so that all parents can afford care.

Parents pay money for daycare. The CDU wants to lower these fees further. This should mainly help families with little money. Families with many children should also pay less. Everyone should be able to afford childcare.

The CDU wants to allow more flexible and longer opening hours at daycare centers. They are to be geared to the needs of working parents, especially single parents and those working full time, making it easier to combine family and work.

The CDU wants different opening hours at daycare centers. They should be open longer and more flexibly. This should help parents who work. Single parents in particular should have an easier time.

The CDU wants to increase the number of daycare places across the state, including in nurseries for the youngest children. Local governments are to be supported with state funds so that every family gets the care it needs.

The CDU wants more places in daycare centers. There should also be more places for very young children. The state gives towns and cities money for this. Every family should get a suitable place.

The CDU wants to further raise incentives and pay for home-based childminders. This is meant to increase the number of childminding places across the state and give parents more choice.

Childminders care for children in small groups. The CDU wants to pay them more. Then there should be more of these services. Parents across the state should have more choice.

The CDU wants to expand family centers and family education facilities and secure their funding for the long term. Families should get advice on government benefits in one place close to home, and in the future also online. The party also wants to promote family-friendly working hours more strongly.

The CDU wants to strengthen family centers. Families should get advice there on all government help. The advice should be close to home. It should also be available online. The money for the centers should be secure for a long time.

The CDU wants to expand the preventive programs "Frühe Hilfen" (early support) and "Schutzengel" (guardian angel) so that more pregnant women, young parents, and families receive counseling and practical help. Foster families are to get closer support, and new foster families are to be recruited.

The CDU wants to grow the programs "Frühe Hilfen" and "Schutzengel." They help pregnant women and young parents. There are too few foster families. Foster families take in children who cannot live with their parents. The CDU wants to find more of these families.

The CDU wants to work through the Bundesrat so that months of Kurzarbeit (short-time work) are left out when Elterngeld (parental allowance) is calculated. This is meant to protect young parents from unforeseeable financial shortfalls. In addition, registering a child online should automatically trigger child benefit and the child tax allowance.

In short-time work, people earn less. Then the parental allowance is also smaller. The CDU wants to change that. Months of short-time work should not count in the calculation. Parents should also be able to start child benefit easily online.

The CDU wants to launch a pilot project for a mobile children's and youth center in rural areas. It cites the lack of leisure activities outside school and the growing importance of loneliness. At the same time, schools and child and youth services are to work together more closely.

In rural areas there are few leisure activities for children and young people. So the CDU wants to test a youth center that travels from place to place. Young people can meet there. Schools and youth services should also work together more closely.

The CDU wants to make safeguarding plans against violence toward children and young people mandatory outside of school as well. Daycare centers and schools already have this obligation. In addition, a justice system attuned to children is to be strengthened further.

Daycare centers and schools must already have plans to protect children from violence. The CDU wants to require this for other activities for children too. This should also protect against sexual violence. Courts and agencies should respond better to children's needs.

The CDU advocates a uniform nationwide scheme of financial help for fertility treatment. It is to be open to unmarried couples as well. The aim is for as many people as possible to be able to have the children they want.

Some couples cannot have a child although they want one. Treatment can help, but it costs money. The CDU wants financial help for this across Germany. Unmarried couples should get the help too.

The CDU wants to give more support to pregnancy conflict counseling. The Lübeck pilot project "biko," which reimburses women on low incomes for prescription contraceptives, is to apply statewide. Education about sexuality and contraception is meant to reduce the number of abortions.

The CDU wants more support for counseling centers for women with unplanned pregnancies. Women with little money should get contraceptives paid for. So far this exists as a project in Lübeck. It should apply across the whole state. More education should lead to fewer abortions.

The FDP aims for parents to pay no daycare fees at all. Given the budget situation, this is to happen step by step by lowering the cap on parental fees year after year.

Daycare should one day cost parents nothing. This cannot happen all at once because money is tight. Today there is a top limit on the fees. This limit should go down every year.

The FDP wants to continue the daycare reform: more full-day places and flexible hours, higher quality standards and more inclusion. The ongoing evaluation of the reform is to guide further steps.

The FDP wants to keep improving daycare. There should be more full-day places and flexible hours. The rules for good care should get stricter. Children with special needs should get help more easily in daycare.

The FDP wants to make training and working conditions for staff in daycare centers and home-based childcare more attractive. This includes more hands-on training, more qualification programs and easier entry for workers with qualifications from elsewhere.

Daycare needs good staff. The FDP wants training to be more hands-on. There should be more courses for staff. People with a qualification from another country should be able to start more easily.

The FDP wants to link support services for families more closely with each other and with youth services. After the pandemic, additional counseling and leisure offerings are to offset burdens, and child protection centers are to be expanded.

There are many kinds of help for families. The FDP wants these services to work together better. After Covid there should be more counseling and leisure activities. Centers that protect children should also grow.

The FDP advocates a uniform nationwide rule under which couples who cannot conceive receive promising treatments free of charge. In its view, starting a family should not fail because of cost.

Some couples want a child but cannot have one. Doctors can often help. But this costs money. The FDP wants this help to be free. The rule should be the same all over Germany.

The FDP wants youth welfare offices to give priority to the Wechselmodell (alternating residence) after parents separate, in which the child lives with each parent in turn. Both parents are to keep a shared everyday life with the child.

Sometimes parents split up. The FDP wants the child to then live with each parent in turn. This is called alternating residence. Youth welfare offices should support this first. That keeps the bond with both parents.

The FDP backs the demand to write children's rights into the Basic Law, Germany's constitution. This is meant to define children's fundamental rights specifically, including in relation to the state and to parents.

Children have rights like everyone else. The FDP wants their rights written into the Basic Law. The Basic Law is Germany's most important law. This makes children's rights clearer.

The FDP wants to review the situation of youth associations and work with them on targeted support. It points to the largely volunteer-run work these associations did during the pandemic. It also calls for more counseling, better conditions in voluntary service, and a stronger voice for young people.

The FDP wants to give youth groups more support. First it wants to check how the groups are doing. Young people should have more say in their towns. People who do voluntary service should get better conditions.

The FDP wants youth welfare services to give young people a chance to shape their own lives regardless of their family background. To that end, the agencies involved are to cooperate more closely, and young people without housing are to get help faster.

The FDP wants to give better help to young people in hard situations. Offices and services should work together more closely. Young people without a home should get help fast. There should be a contact point that is always open.

The FDP wants to support the federal government's reform of family law, including recognition of multi-parent families and the new "community of responsibility." In the state, it wants to expand child care and flexible work models so that family and career fit together better. This is to apply to all family forms.

The FDP wants to support new rules for families. A child should be able to have more than two legal parents. People who are not married should also be able to take legal responsibility for each other. Day care should be open longer. Work should become more flexible to help parents.

The Greens want to upgrade Kindertagespflege (home-based child care by childminders) through better advice and training. It is to be considered consistently alongside daycare centers as a form of care.

Childminders also look after children. The Greens think this work is important. They want more advice and training for them. Childminders should be able to share ideas more easily.

The Greens want to ease daycare costs for parents: the sibling discount is to become a family discount and the fee cap is to fall step by step. In the medium term, daycare is to be free of charge.

Daycare should cost parents less. Families with several children should pay less. The highest fee allowed should go down bit by bit. Later, daycare should cost nothing at all.

The Greens want to create enough additional daycare places for the legal entitlement from age one to be met everywhere in the state. In the year before starting school, all children are to get equal chances.

Every child from age one has a right to a daycare place. There are not enough places yet. The Greens want to build more. Money for building should be easier to get. Daycare and school should work closely together.

The Greens want to abolish the split between core and off-peak hours in daycare fees and introduce a monthly rather than weekly cap on hours. Parents who work very early or late are not to be financially worse off.

Some parents work very early or very late. They should not pay more for daycare than others. Daycare hours should become more flexible. Children of different ages should also be able to share a group in the afternoon.

The Greens want to give families more everyday support and will look into a state law on family support. Counseling, assistance and funding programs are to be bundled and made easier to reach.

The Greens want to help families more. They will look into a new state law for families. Advice and help should be easier to find. There should be less paperwork.

The Greens want work and family life to fit together better, relying on childcare and flexible working hours. At the federal level they want to push for a shortened full-time model for parents.

Parents should be able to combine work and family better. The Greens want to spend more on childcare. Companies should offer flexible working hours. Parents should also be able to work shorter full-time hours.

The Greens want to develop a youth policy strategy for Schleswig-Holstein and have new laws assessed for their effects on young people. They also want the federal government to launch a digital pact for youth work.

The Greens want a plan for young people in the state. New laws should be checked: What do they mean for young people? This is called a youth check. Youth work should get federal money for digital tools.

The Greens want to fund youth centers and open youth work and set up a program to modernize, expand and newly open them in a climate-neutral way. Young people are to get their own spaces in public areas and more cultural, sports and leisure options.

The Greens want to give money to youth centers. They should be renovated and new ones should open. Young people should get their own places to meet. There should be more sports, culture and leisure activities.

The Greens want to improve staffing in the general social services of youth welfare offices and agree on fixed standards with municipalities. In the program's view, adequate staffing is the precondition for effective child protection.

Youth welfare offices should get more staff. There should be fixed rules for this. The Greens say: This is the only way to protect children well. An online portal should show all support services.

The Greens want all institutions in contact with minors to be required to adopt safeguarding plans against violence and abuse. In addition, a child protection commission is to be set up for Schleswig-Holstein.

The Greens want to protect children better from violence. Daycare centers, schools and clubs should have to have a protection plan. Adults there should get training. A commission should deal with child protection.

The SPD wants to develop an app where families can find all government benefits in one place and access them more easily. In addition, family education centers, family centers and early support for parents of young children are to be strengthened.

The SPD wants to make an app for families. Families can find all government help there. Children can also see leisure offers there. Family centers should also get more support.

The SPD wants to support youth associations, coordinate open child and youth work statewide and give targeted help to disadvantaged children. No child should be shut out of activities for lack of money. It also wants to tackle child and youth poverty.

The SPD wants to support youth groups. No child should be left out because of money. Poor children should get more help. Young refugees should also be able to join youth work.

The SPD wants to develop a statewide prevention program to protect children and young people from every form of violence. Child protection centers and girls' shelters are to be adequately funded, and child protection in rural areas is to be strengthened.

The SPD wants to protect children better from violence. It plans a program for the whole state. Child protection centers and girls' shelters should get enough money. Protection should also get better in rural areas.

The SPD wants to eliminate parental fees for daycare centers, nurseries and home-based childcare by 2027. It argues that fees keep even middle-income families from using childcare.

The SPD wants daycare to be free for parents. This also covers nurseries and childminders. It should happen by 2027. The SPD says the fees are unfair.

The SPD wants to tackle staff shortages in daycare with paid, practice-oriented training and easier entry for career changers. It also wants to strengthen home-based childminders and use more mixed professional teams in daycare centers.

Daycare centers lack staff. The SPD wants to pay people during training. Changing from another job should be easier. Childminders should get more support too.

The SPD wants to create more childcare places for children under and over three and provide extra state investment funds for this. Care hours should fit parents' working lives better, and daycare centers in disadvantaged areas should get special support.

There are too few daycare places. The SPD wants to create new ones. The state should pay more for this. Daycare centers should be open longer. Centers in poor areas should get extra help.

The SSW wants to replace joint tax splitting for married couples with a family-based splitting model. The tax code should reflect today's variety of family arrangements instead of mainly favoring marriage.

Married couples often pay less tax today. This is called spousal splitting. The SSW wants to change that. The tax benefit should apply to all families. Families today live in many different ways.

The SSW wants to combine benefits that counter poverty and child poverty and make them available online, arguing that applications are too complicated for many families. Children should also get free access to sports and cultural activities.

The SSW wants to make help for poor families simpler. The different kinds of help should be combined. Families should be able to apply online. Children should get sports and culture for free.

The SSW wants young people to have more say in schools, leisure facilities, universities and municipalities. Decisions that affect them should be made together with them.

The SSW wants children and young people to have more say. This applies to schools, leisure facilities and universities. Towns should also ask young people for their views. Children should be able to reach a complaints office easily.

The SSW calls for support for children and young people who fell behind because of the pandemic. If federal funding is not enough, the state should launch and pay for its own programs.

Many children missed out during the COVID period. The SSW wants to help them. There should be help with learning and with mental health. More sports and leisure activities are also planned. If federal money is not enough, the state should pay.

The SSW wants to phase out daycare fees and guarantee every child a place. At the same time, more places are to be created and the quality of early education improved.

The SSW wants daycare to cost nothing. This should happen step by step. Every child should get a place. Meals in daycare should also be free and healthy.

The SSW wants to improve the finances of single parents and young families and make benefits easier to access. The platform cites the heavier burden on single parents and says applications are too complicated for many families.

The SSW wants to help single parents and young families. Single parents with low pay should not lose housing benefit. People buying their first home to live in should pay less tax. Applying for family benefits should become easier.