City council adopts daycare needs plan until 2021
The city council adopted the 2021 daycare centre requirements plan at its meeting today. The aim of the daycare centre requirements plan is to implement the legal entitlement to education, upbringing and care for crèche and kindergarten children in a daycare centre or daycare facility and to provide sufficient after-school care places.
The new daycare centre requirements plan provides a forecast up to 2021. According to this, an increase of 102 children with a legal entitlement to a childcare place in a daycare centre is to be expected.
Based on the forecast of resident children and the potential places available, a coverage rate of approx. 92 per cent for crèches and approx. 97 per cent for kindergartens can be achieved in 2021. In addition to the increase in resident children, the need of many parents for childcare can therefore be met. By 2021, seven daycare centres with 580 places for children of crèche and kindergarten age will be created. In addition, the complete refurbishment of the Fritz-Fritzsche-Straße 55/57 facility, which is run by BIK e. V., will create 89 new places.
In the first quarter of 2020, the new Hohensteiner Straße facility in Reichenbrand will open under the sponsorship of Stadtmission Chemnitz e. V. The capacities of the interim daycare centre Fürstenstraße 263 - 265 are still required to cover the legal entitlement. The city has been operating two group units with 36 places in the building since October 2019. The provider Stadtmission Chemnitz e. V. has indicated that it is unable to operate the centre at full capacity due to staff shortages. In accordance with Section 9 (3) SächsKitaG, the public provider is obliged to take over the service in order to secure the demand for places. As the
demand for places continues to exist, the City of Chemnitz will continue to operate the centre with 110 places from 2020.
Due to the growth in pupil numbers at Heinrich-Heine-Grundschule, Augsburger Straße 32, it was decided to convert the entire building at Augsburger Straße 36 into an after-school care centre. Day nursery and kindergarten capacities have already been reduced since 2018 in order to avoid children and parents having to change providers. In order to make crèche and kindergarten places available again in the Bernsdorf district, the building at Bernsdorfer Straße 120 will be converted into a daycare centre with a capacity of 136 places by 2021. The facility will be operated by the organisation Kinder-, Jugend- und Familienhilfe e. V. Chemnitz. The capacity will be increased by 18 places with the construction of the new "Am Hang" daycare centre in the Reichenhain district. This centre is operated by the Arbeiterwohlfahrt Kreisverband Chemnitz und Umgebung e. V. (Workers' Welfare Association Chemnitz and Surroundings).