Register your child in a day care centre

  • Short text

    • Day care centre Admission
    • Legal entitlement to early childhood support
    • Contact beforehand possible and sensible
    • Registration via local procedure
    • Responsible body:

  • Full text

    Child day care includes the care and support of your child in a child day care centre (crèche, kindergarten, after-school care) or a child day care centre.
    The day care centres have the following tasks:

    • They promote the child's development into a self-determined, independent and socially competent personality.
    • They support and supplement the upbringing and education in the family.
    • They help parents to better reconcile working life, child rearing and family care.

    The support mandate includes the upbringing, education and care of the child. It relates to the child's social, emotional, physical and mental development. It includes the teaching of guiding values and rules.

    The support should be orientated towards the following characteristics of the children:

    • Age
    • State of development
    • linguistic and other skills
    • Life situation
    • Interests and needs
    • Ethnic origin

    The placement of a childcare place in a day care centre for children takes place in cooperation with the responsible local youth welfare agency.

    The scope of care varies from state to state.

  • Legal basis(s)

  • Prerequisites

    A child who is 1 year old or older is entitled to early childhood support in a day care centre or in a day care centre for children until their 3rd birthday.

    If both parents are unable to look after their child themselves, children under the age of 1 may already be entitled to early childhood support. This is the case, for example, if both parents are working.

    From their 3rd birthday until they start school, children are entitled to support in a day care centre.

  • Costs (fees, expenses, etc.)

    The amount of your costs will depend on your income, the size of your household and the amount of childcare you require.

  • Procedure

    Parents should enquire in good time at the responsible office whether there are any childcare places available.

    Personal contact or a personal meeting between you and the daycare centre is useful and usually possible. Many centres offer an introduction to their facility before enrolment.

    After registration, the available places are allocated according to the local rules.

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  • Responsible office

    Local municipal or city administration or local youth welfare office

  • Library entry status

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  • Applications / Forms


Contact point

You can find out about the number of childcare centres and the number of places as well as the concepts from the local municipal or city administration or the local youth welfare office.
They can also provide you with the contact addresses of the day care centres or childminders that are suitable. Registration takes place at the respective facility or with the day care centre provider.

Responsible departments

Responsible employees