Erziehung in einer Tagesgruppe Gewährung

Does your child have problems in everyday life or in their development? As a parent, do you need support in raising your child? Then raising your child in a day group may be a possible solution.

Education in a day group is particularly suitable for children from school age who show behavioral problems or developmental delays. This is a type of educational support service. It may also be suitable for young adults in accordance with §41 SGB VIII.
A day group is what is known as partial inpatient help. Your child will be looked after in a day group during the week after school. Afterwards, however, they can stay with their family and thus in their familiar surroundings.
Education in a day group means

• Your child receives therapeutic and educational care
• It receives support with integration into school and the social environment
• It learns how to deal with other children and conflicts in a group
• It learns to organize its everyday life and receives suggestions for meaningful leisure activities.
• Parents are intensively involved, for example through counseling sessions, parents' evenings or parent-child meetings.

The aims of education in a day group are

• to strengthen the child
• to strengthen the parents
• to strengthen the parent-child relationship
• Keeping the child in the family

• Identity card
• Proof of custody, if applicable, for example:
  • Birth certificate
  • Information from the custody register
  • Decision of the family court on custody
• If necessary, further documents, this will be communicated by the responsible youth welfare office

• You are the person with custody of a child (parent or guardian)
• You feel overwhelmed with the upbringing of the child
• Help with raising your child in a day group is suitable and necessary.

The costs for education in a day group are largely borne by the youth welfare office. However, you must contribute to the costs to a reasonable extent. Please ask the responsible youth welfare office about this.

Contact the responsible youth welfare office.

• All parties involved (you, your child, the caregivers from the day group and the youth welfare office) will meet to discuss a help plan. The help plan sets out how the help is to be organized and what goals are to be achieved.
• If education in a day group seems appropriate, you can submit an application for educational assistance.
• The youth welfare office will look for a suitable day group. You can express your wishes. If there are several options, you can choose the day group.
• Regular checks are carried out to determine whether the help is still suitable.

The processing time varies, depending on the individual circumstances and the responsible office.

• Education in a day group Granting
• Possibility of educational assistance
• Suitable for behavioral problems or developmental delays
• Youth welfare office advises and recommends
• Responsible office: local youth welfare office