Nanny
In some German federal states such as Bavaria , Baden-Württemberg , North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia, state-certified nanny is a training occupation in the family-supplementary infant and child care, which is located below the level of competence in particular the educator and with the professional titles used in other federal states Social assistant or social worker is comparable.
Nannies work with children from infancy through to the end of elementary school, i.e. up to around ten years of age. The ISCED classification is 3B; the nanny is not one of the regulated professions .
The vast majority of nannies are women, which is why the feminine form nanny - sometimes also as a generic feminine - is used.
education
In all federal states, the prerequisite is a secondary school leaving certificate, vocational school qualification or an equivalent qualification.
The profession is learned at vocational schools , usually two years full-time. In Baden-Württemberg, school training is followed by a practical year of recognition , which means that training there lasts three years.
If the grades are good enough, the secondary school leaving certificate is awarded in parallel . In the meantime there is also the possibility for professionally experienced but unqualified educational assistants to have themselves checked externally.
The school part of the training is not remunerated.
42% of prospective nannies do not complete the first part of their training. Another 8% drop out at the educator school.
Men have been allowed to learn the trade since the late 1960s.
Occupational fields
Child carers are classified as pedagogical complementary workers , while educators are classified as pedagogical specialists ; both count as educational staff or as educational staff ; hierarchically below the nannies there are also the educational assistants . Nannies work with educators in a team, but usually do not have overall responsibility for a group, do not lead interns and are not allowed to manage an institution.
While nannies mostly work in additional family facilities such as crèches , kindergartens , day-care centers in general and after-school care centers , the equivalent remedial care assistants work in non- inclusive , partially or fully inpatient facilities for disabled care . Since the practical differences between the two professions are rather small, other federal states have grouped them together in the profession of social assistant .
Employment relationships
On March 1, 2013, 57,462 child carers were working in Germany.
Most of them, 24,941 nannies, work alone in Bavaria. In contrast, there are 34,097 educators. Thus in Bavaria there is a ratio of (rounded) 42% child carers to 58% educators.
The specialist staff in the other federal states are often more highly qualified, where (as of March 1, 2012) only between 0.9% and 22.5% have a vocational college degree (social assistant or nanny).
International
Internationally, comparable job titles are rather rare, in Austria and Switzerland, for example, there is no equivalent state-recognized profession.
The approximate English name is childminder or child care provider .
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- ↑ a b Specialized staff in day-care centers in the European Union: Training and fields of work (PDF; 726 kB)
- ^ School Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia: Curriculum for child care (PDF; 172 kB)
- ^ Thuringian school portal: curriculum for child care workers
- ↑ Ministry for Culture, Youth and Sport Baden-Württemberg: Vocational Schools in Baden-Württemberg ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Federal Employment Agency Berufenet ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Susmita Arp, Miriam Olbrisch: Only a smile as a reward . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 2017, p. 54-55 ( online ).
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office: Children and people working in day care facilities and in publicly funded day care
- ↑ Child and youth welfare statistics from the Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing 2013
- ↑ Country monitor: Proportion of staff according to qualification level in%, March 1, 2012 ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
See also
- Nanny or nanny
- Pediatric nurse
Web links
- Job information "child carer" from the Federal Employment Agency