Child Promotion Act
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Law on the promotion of children under three years of age in day care facilities and child day care |
| Short title: | Child Promotion Act |
| Abbreviation: | KiföG |
| Type: | Federal law |
| Scope: | Federal Republic of Germany |
| Legal matter: | Social law |
| Issued on: | December 10, 2008 ( BGBl. I p. 2403 ) |
| Entry into force on: | predominantly December 16, 2008 (Art. 10 Para. 1–3 KiföG) |
| GESTA : | I015 |
| Weblink: | Text of the KiföG (PDF; 484 kB) |
| Please note the note on the applicable legal version. | |
The Child Promotion Act is a German federal act , an article law , which puts the expansion of childcare offers for small children in a legal framework and mostly came into force on December 16, 2008. It changes for this purpose various provisions in the Fifth , Eighth and Eleventh Book of the Social Code , the Revenue Sharing Act of the Federation, the Federal Training Assistance Act , the Adoption Act , the Income Tax Act and in Tagesbetreuungsausbaugesetz .
The law provides for the range of childcare places for small children between one and three years of age to be expanded by 2013 in such a way that a legal right introduced by the law from August 1, 2013 to the provision of a childcare place for all children of the age concerned is served can.
It obliges the providers of public child and youth welfare , i.e. the (rural) districts and district-free cities, through the youth welfare offices set up in them , to provide all children with a care offer in a day care center or day care center , for their development towards an independent and socially competent personality Care is required or whose legal guardians are gainfully employed, are gainfully employed, are looking for work, are in vocational training, are in school or university or receive benefits for integration into work.
Further regulations under state law remain expressly unaffected ( § 24 SGB VIII).
30 percent of the newly created places are to be allocated to day care. Overall, the expansion costs amount to twelve billion euros, the federal government will participate between 2008 and 2013 with 2.15 billion euros from the federal special fund for childcare expansion 2007-2015 in the investments.
State legal regulations
- Child Day Care Act in Baden-Württemberg (KiTaG)
- Bavarian Child Education and Care Act (BayKiBiG)
- Child Day Promotion Act (Berlin)
- Brandenburg: Daycare Act (KitaG)
- Bremen Day Care Act (BremKTG)
- Hamburg Childcare Act (KibeG)
- Hessian Child Promotion Act (HessKiföG)
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Child Day Promotion Act (KiföG)
- Law on day care facilities for children (Lower Saxony)
- Law on early education and support for children in North Rhine-Westphalia (KiBiz)
- Daycare Center Act Rhineland-Palatinate (KTagStG)
- Saarland Childcare and Education Act (SKBBG)
- Saxony: Law on day-care facilities (SächsKitaG)
- Saxony-Anhalt: Child Promotion Act (KiFöG)
- Schleswig-Holstein: Day Care Centers Act (KiTaG)
- Thuringian Child Day Care Act (ThürKitaG)
