Koordinierende Kinderschutzstellen; Beantragung einer Förderung

The Free State of Bavaria supports local authorities in the nationwide systematic bundling and networking of early help through Coordinating Child Protection Centers (KoKis).

Purpose

The Free State of Bavaria supports local authorities in establishing social early warning and support systems to further develop preventive child protection through early help. Funding is provided for coordinating child protection centers (KoKi - Netzwerk frühe Kindheit). The aim of the funding is to reach parents with infants and young children in stressful life situations at an early stage and to provide them with tailored support in order to avoid situations of excessive demands that can lead to abuse and neglect of children.

Object

Funding is provided for coordinating child protection centers.

Recipients of funding

Recipients of funding are exclusively the local public youth welfare organizations in Bavaria.

Eligible costs

Funding is available for personnel costs.

Type and amount

The grant is awarded within the framework of project funding as fixed-amount funding (personnel cost subsidy). A full-time specialist is funded with a fixed amount of up to EUR 16,500 per year. The funding is reduced proportionately for part-time specialists.

• Cost overviews and financing plan

  (are part of this application under "Forms")

• current status or further development of the network-related child protection conception

The grant recipients must provide the following services as a condition of the grant:

Networking

The grant recipient must carry out networking activities to the extent specified below:

• Networking includes the establishment, expansion, maintenance and further development of binding regional networks for the early support of families. The aim is to provide optimum support for the target group by pooling existing local expertise and ensuring binding and sustainable interdisciplinary cooperation. Networking requires the involvement of as many professions as possible that are primarily concerned with this target group. Important network partners therefore include maternity clinics, midwives and maternity nurses, health authorities, doctors, psychiatric clinics, hospitals, pregnancy counseling centers, educational counseling centers, daycare centers, other child and youth welfare facilities, early intervention centers, basic security providers, addiction and drug counseling centers, women's protection facilities, debt counseling centers, police and volunteers.
• In addition to the coordination of suitable offers of help, the network work also includes the creation of systematic access to the target group through binding cooperation with the healthcare system. In particular, joint instruments are to be developed with maternity clinics to enable an assessment of risk and protective factors. In addition, binding agreements are to be reached on how to proceed.
• In order to ensure the best possible networking, an analysis of the cooperation partners, their tasks and services, professional resources and limitations as well as the local target group is necessary. The analysis also includes checking the services for acceptance and accessibility. Outreach services in particular should be integrated into the network.
• The aims of the network work include improving mutual knowledge and acceptance of the individual network partners, common language rules, transparent handover regulations and binding standards in preventative child protection.
• Suitable means of achieving the goals of networking include the establishment of round tables, working groups in accordance with Section 78 SGB VIII or comparable (also virtual) communication platforms for professional exchange between all professional groups and institutions that offer early help.
• The mutual representation of municipalities is only permitted within the framework of networking.

Navigation function

In addition to networking as general, structural cooperation, the Coordinating Child Protection Center must refer parents within the youth welfare office or to suitable network partners according to their individual needs and, if desired, provide support during the transition at the interface between two network partners. When working together in individual cases, the regulations of social data protection must be observed in particular.

Network-related child protection concept

• The funding recipient must draw up a network-related child protection concept that forms the basis of the network's work. The network-related child protection concept must be developed on the basis of a target group-specific analysis of services and needs in the region and must include existing early help services.
• It should be developed together with the network partners, approved by the youth welfare committee and signed by the network partners. The concept must contain a clear allocation of tasks and responsibilities within the network as well as mechanisms for monitoring success. The network-related child protection concept is further developed and updated as part of the network work.
• In terms of content, the network-related child protection concept should contain statements on the following points in particular:
  • Initial situation: structured presentation of existing early help services and unmet needs,
  • Objectives,
  • Achievement of objectives: implementation and methodology,
  • Organizational integration of the coordinating child protection unit in the youth welfare office,
  • Premises of the Coordinating Child Protection Center,
  • Accessibility/representation arrangements,
  • Interface management with other specialist areas within the youth welfare office; in particular definition of the interface with the office responsible for fulfilling the tasks in accordance with Section 8a SGB VIII,
  • Regional political decision-making,
  • Planning with regard to the further development and updating of the concept,
  • Concept for public relations work.

The network-related child protection concept must be published in a suitable manner (e.g. the Coordinating Child Protection Center's own homepage), stating the names of the professionals working at the Coordinating Child Protection Center and the network partners, including a description of their area of responsibility and competence, telephone number and e-mail address.

Staffing and professional qualifications