Land promotes training for social education aid

The country promotes the new compensated, practical training for social pedagogical aid. With the financial support, the country ensures more attractive training positions and ultimately more educational specialists in Baden-Württemberg.

still has a great need for well-trained teaching staff. For this reason, the Ministry of Culture-according to the success model of the paid, practical pedagogical training (PIA)-together with the Municipal state associations , church and free Kindergarten Associations as well as Local Association for Youth and Social Affairs (KVJS) to the social pedagogical assistant. Based on a new administrative regulation, the state is now also promoting the training.

The training is aimed at people with a secondary school leaving certificate and completed vocational training and is an alternative to classic child education training. It enables you to take part in the education, education, support and support of children in social pedagogical institutions of child and youth welfare, for example in daycare centers and daycare centers. The aim of the new training path is to achieve further target groups. "We meet challenges such as the high need for skilled workers in early childhood education with new ideas, for example with a practical training as a social pedagogical assistant," says Education Minister Theresa " Schopper and adds: "With this training format, we make high school graduates and graduates of vocational training easier or change into an educational profession and ensure that even more people choose a profession with and for children."

funding for daycare centers

The training concept is now financially supported on the basis of a new administrative regulation. For example, the country promotes the agricultural of daycare centers that create an additional paid training position in September 2021 as part of the practice -integrated training as a social worker and thereby increase its training capacity by at least one training one compared to the previous year. In the first year of training, the state subsidizes the training position with 1,300 euros per trainee and month, in the second year of training with 1,450 euros. "Promoting means progress - we are now doing this in a targeted manner with the means," says the State Secretary

The prerequisite for funding is that the training takes place at a public or state -recognized vocational school for social pedagogy (practical) and that the pupils do not have to pay school fees as part of their training.

Ministerium for Culture, Youth and Sport: Vocational school for social pedagogical support