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Niederzissen: New daycare center is being planned – a ray of hope for parents!
Niederzissen is struggling with a lack of daycare places. The local council is planning measures to improve child care.
Niederzissen: New daycare center is being planned – a ray of hope for parents!
There is an urgent problem on the table in Niederzissen: the lack of childcare places for preschool children has prompted the local council to look for solutions. As the Rhine newspaper reported, the existing kindergarten is already overcrowded, which underlines the urgency of the situation. Parents have fewer and fewer opportunities to have their children adequately cared for, which represents a difficult challenge for many.
But the future looks a little clearer: the local council has made plans to build a new daycare center (Kita). The aim is to create more space for the kids and to support the parents. Details about the progress and the planned measures can be found on the official Niederzissen website, which deals with the topic of kindergarten places: Niederzissen.de.
Continued need for daycare places
A fundamental problem that affects many daycare centers is the shortage of skilled workers. Expert Anette Stein emphasizes that this deficiency makes it immensely difficult to fulfill legal rights to care, especially for children under three years of age. The legal entitlement was introduced in 2013, but for hundreds of thousands of children this entitlement remains unfulfilled. In many cases, the staffing ratios are anything but child-friendly: In West Germany, a specialist looks after an average of 3.4 children in crèche groups and 7.7 in kindergarten groups, while scientists' suggestions would be significantly better at 1 in 3 and 1 in 7.5, respectively.
In East Germany the situation looks even more dramatic. Here, specialists look after 5.4 children in crèche groups and 10.5 in kindergarten groups. These inadequate conditions mean that almost 90 percent of daycare children in East Germany and around 62 percent in West Germany are cared for in groups with unfavorable staffing ratios.
All of these developments and challenges are also in focus in Niederzissen. The local council is aware of the problem and is doing everything it can to set the course for a positive development. What happens next can only be hoped for and, above all, actively shaped.