Federal working group for state youth welfare offices

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The Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Landesjugendämter (BAG) is the amalgamation of the 17 state youth welfare offices in Germany, which perform supra- local youth welfare tasks in their respective catchment area .

tasks

The BAG State Youth Welfare Office develops common procedures and principles for youth welfare in the federal, state and local governments, takes a position on draft laws in the field of youth welfare, develops recommendations and working aids and contributes to the nationwide application of SGB ​​VIII (Child and Youth Welfare Act).

The aim of the cooperation of the state youth welfare offices in the federal working group is to secure and further develop the professional standard in the practice of child and youth welfare, to contribute to a nationwide uniform design of the offers and services of child and youth welfare and to support the interests of young people and of their families. This is done by developing joint recommendations for individual fields of work. The BAG State Youth Welfare Office gives its opinion on draft laws relevant to youth welfare at the federal level, is a member of central federal specialist committees and works with specialist organizations and committees for public and free youth welfare . In all of its activities, it particularly represents the interests of public youth welfare.

As part of their two-tier structure of administration and committee , the state youth welfare offices have intensive contacts and cooperation with the local public bodies, the youth welfare offices and the institutions of independent organizations. You act at a central interface between youth welfare policy orientation, technical development and the technical need for orientation of local youth welfare practice.

With its statements, recommendations and working aids, the BAG state youth welfare offices address the public and professional practitioners.

History of origin

The first meeting of north-west German state youth welfare offices on December 13 and 14, 1954 in Düsseldorf is considered to be the founding date. In the years that followed, the cooperation expanded to include all countries. Since the 8th working conference in Wiesbaden in 1960, the name “Federal Working Group of State Youth Welfare Offices and Welfare Education Authorities” has been used. As part of the reorganization of youth welfare law by SGB VIII, the “supra-local education authorities” ceased to exist in 1991, while the state youth welfare offices of the new federal states were added, so that the merger then presented itself as the “federal working group of state youth welfare offices”. In 2010 the Federal Working Group decided to give itself a new look. It modernized the logo and letterhead and has been operating as the “Federal Working Group State Youth Welfare Offices”, or BAG State Youth Welfare Office for short, since the 110th working conference. The previously used acronym “BAGLJÄ” was dispensed with in order to have a name that was understandable to the outside world.

Content of the work

The focus of the technical work is based on the tasks of the state youth welfare offices, as summarized in Section 85, Paragraph 2 of Book VIII of the Social Code. The focus is on legal developments in youth welfare, family law and related areas of law, as well as their implementation in local practice.

Statements and recommendations on the quality and design of child day care, on the implementation of professional standards in educational assistance facilities, on the availability of skilled workers, on questions of cost reimbursement, on youth welfare planning or on quality development in youth work , exemplify the breadth of professional topics. With the repeatedly updated "Recommendations for Adoption Mediation" standards were set, which are also used by case law today.

In 2011, the BAG regional youth welfare offices reacted together with youth welfare offices to the often negative depiction of youth welfare offices in the media with the campaign “The youth welfare office. Support that matters. ". This gave the youth welfare offices the opportunity to present their diverse offers and services in a nationally differentiated and publicized manner. The campaign was supported by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth and by the municipal umbrella organizations . The brochure “What youth welfare offices do”, developed as part of the campaign, presents the work of youth welfare offices in a uniform, concise and understandable form for the first time and has a circulation of around 450,000 copies (as of 2012). In addition to the German version, it is available in Turkish, Russian and English.

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The BAG state youth welfare offices participated intensively in the discussion about improvements in child protection and a federal child protection law . In 2012, together with the Working Group for Child and Youth Welfare , she developed recommendations for the implementation of this law.

Working method

The general meetings of the BAG state youth welfare offices take place every six months as working conferences. Working groups prepare statements, resolutions and recommendations. Specialist conferences are held on individual key issues, which serve to provide an intensive exchange of experience and provide a broad technical foundation for key issues.

The office is based at the administration, to which the chairperson of the BAG state youth welfare offices belongs. The chair is elected for four years; re-election for a further term is possible. Birgit Zeller, head of the Rhineland-Palatinate state youth welfare office, has been chairwoman of the BAG state youth welfare offices since May 1, 2010. Birgit Zeller was elected chairwoman for a further four years in May 2014. This means that until 2018 the management was with the Rhineland-Palatinate State Youth Office.

The head of the Rhineland Youth Welfare Office, Lorenz Bahr, has been chairman of the BAG State Youth Welfare Office since 2018. Since then, management has been with the Rhineland Regional Association in Cologne.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal working group for state youth welfare offices: The youth welfare office. Support that matters. Retrieved June 27, 2012.