Register child in KiTa
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzChild day care includes the care and support of your child in a child day care facility (crèche, kindergarten, after-school care) or a child day care center.
The day care facilities for children have the following tasks:
- They promote the development of the child into a self-determined, self-reliant and socially capable personality.
- They support and supplement the upbringing and education in the family.
- They help parents to better reconcile gainful employment, child rearing and family care.
The support mandate includes upbringing, education and care of the child. It refers to the social, emotional, physical and mental development of the child. It includes the teaching of orienting values and rules.
The support should be based on the following characteristics of the children:
- Age
- stage of development
- linguistic and other abilities
- life situation
- interests and needs
- ethnic origin
The placement of a child in a day care center takes place in cooperation with the responsible local youth welfare agency.
The scope of care varies from state to state.
You can often introduce yourself directly at a daycare center (or at a daycare center) or search for a suitable daycare center on the homepage of your youth welfare office. "Your youth welfare office" is the local office, i.e. your district youth welfare office or city youth welfare office.
The procedures for registering your child vary from one youth welfare office to another. Some youth welfare offices offer online portals for finding and registering a place .
You can also find contact details for all daycare centers in Rhineland-Palatinate on the state's "Kita-Server": https://kita.rlp.de/kita-in-rheinland-pfalz/kita-vor-ort
You can also contact most daycare centers directly and ask for a place.
You can find a list of all 41 youth welfare office districts in Rhineland-Palatinate here: https://lsjv.rlp.de/fileadmin/lsjv/Themen/Kinder/Downloads/Landesjugendamt/Jugendaemter_rlp.pdf
You can go to the homepage for your district and select the relevant youth welfare office from there.
Kindergartens: These are general educational institutions primarily for children from the age of three until they start school, which differentiate between part-time and full-time places. If required, they should create the conditions for children of other age groups to also be accepted.
a) Kindergartens generally offer childcare in the mornings and afternoons (part-time places).
b) Full-day childcare including lunch is referred to as a full-time or full-day place.
Day nurseries: Day nurseries are day facilities for school children up to the age of 14. After-school care is primarily intended for children whose parents/parents work or are absent from home for a certain period of time or for other social reasons.
Crèches: Crèches are daycare centers in which children up to the age of three receive educational and nursing care and support.
The Child Daycare Act also permits the integrated form of mixed-age groups instead of the coexistence of pure crèches, after-school care centers and kindergartens. As part of its requirements planning, the youth welfare office must draw up a standardized requirements plan for all age groups, which must be updated annually. Information on the number and addresses of the facilities, the number of groups in operation, the total capacity / occupancy, the demand for 4.0 / 3.5 / 3.0 birth cohorts / the demand for infant places and the providers can be found in the information sheets.