Free carrier

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In the Social Security Code, an institution that provides personnel and material resources for services and is a non- public agency or administrative agency (municipality, district, state, federal government) is referred to as an independent agency . The independent carrier offers child care ( kindergarten ), independent schools , social assistance , child and youth welfare or other support measures or offers.

In the narrower usage of the word, a commercial, profit-oriented, i.e. private-sector sponsor (e.g. a mother-child home as a GmbH) is not referred to as an independent sponsor, which means that the group of independent sponsorships refers to non-profit associations and societies ( gGmbH ), foundations as well would restrict free charities .

Commercial providers are also increasingly offering social services. While these were mostly excluded from public funding in the past, significant changes have been made here. It is also doubted that the privileges of the traditional, non-profit, independent sponsors that sometimes exist in public subsidies are compatible with European competition law , so that further development of the sponsoring landscape can be expected. This is accompanied by a dissolution of the narrower sense of the word. The Federal Statistical Office differentiates, for example, between non-profit (e.g. church) and non-profit (e.g. private commercial) organizations.

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The independent agency carries out measures in accordance with its own mandate and its self-image (e.g. holiday camps for children), maintains facilities (such as old people's clubs) or makes offers ( e.g. educational advice ). For this, the independent institution receives grants from the public sector. Traditionally, these grants were not cost-covering, but should only support the commitment of the independent sponsor (see also subsidiarity ).

With the demand for public responsibility, which has become stronger since the 1990s, and the simultaneous withdrawal of the municipal sponsors, the sponsorship landscape is also changing and cost-covering public grants have been demanded more and more frequently. T. also paid. In the wake of tight municipal budgets, demographic change (more older people, fewer young people), a consolidation of the local sponsoring landscape that was partially pushed by the public authorities and the financial crisis of 2008, this development has reversed again.

Nationwide known independent organizations (selection)

Arbeiterwohlfahrt, Caritas, the Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Diakonie and the Central Welfare Office for Jews in Germany are united as central associations for free welfare in the Federal Working Group for Free Welfare .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office: Children and people working in day care facilities and in publicly funded day care. (PDF; 721 kB) Child and youth welfare statistics - day care for children on March 1st, 2014. In: https://www.destatis.de/ . March 1, 2014, accessed June 16, 2015 .