Chemnitz has around 1,000 daycare places too many
Invitation to the press conference on 30 September, 10 a.m., City Hall Room 118
On Monday, 30 September at 10 a.m., Mayor Dagmar Ruscheinsky and the Youth Welfare Office of the City of Chemnitz are inviting media representatives to a press conference at City Hall, Room 118, to provide detailed information about the City of Chemnitz's plans to reduce the number of daycare places.
The Youth Welfare Office of the City of Chemnitz anticipates that around 1000 daycare places will be unfilled in Chemnitz over the next two years. The reasons for this are current city statistics and the continuing decline in the birth rate.
Against this backdrop, the City of Chemnitz will propose to the City Council that childcare places be reduced or several facilities closed by 2028 at the latest.
The proposals are based on the level of coverage in the areas and districts, the capacity utilisation of the facilities as of 30 June 2024 and the condition of the buildings and the existing need for renovation.
The Youth Welfare Office has informed the parents of the children in the centres likely to be affected by the closures as a precautionary measure. The aim is to move the children in groups in order to maintain the children's familiar environment as far as possible.
The employees are to be deployed to other facilities - if possible with their groups. No nursery teachers are to be made redundant either.