Applying for education in a day group

Does your child have problems in everyday life or in his development? As a parent, do you need support with your upbringing? Then raising your child in a day group can be a possible help.

Education in a day group is particularly suitable for children from school age who show behavioral problems or developmental delays. This is a type of educational aid to which legal guardians are entitled if an education in the best interests of the child is not guaranteed and the assistance is suitable and necessary for his or her development. It may also be suitable for young adults according to § 41 SGB VIII.
A day group is a so-called semi-stationary help. Your child will be cared for during the week during the day after school attendance in a day group. After that, however, it can remain in the family and thus in the familiar environment.

Education in a day group means:

• Your child receives therapeutic and educational care
• Receives support for integration into the school and the social environment
• It learns to deal with other children and conflicts in a group
• It learns to shape its everyday life and receives suggestions for meaningful leisure activities.
• Parents are intensively involved, for example through counselling sessions, parents' evenings or parent-child meetings.

The aims of education in a day group are:

• the strengthening of the child
• the strengthening of his parents
• strengthening the parent-child relationship
• the child's remaining in the family

• Identity card
• If applicable, proof of custody, for example:
  • Birth certificate
  • Information from the custody register
  • Decision of the family court on custody

Please contact the Youth Welfare Office responsible for you.

• You are the person with custody of a child (parents or guardians)
• You feel overwhelmed with raising the child
• The help of raising your child in a day group is suitable and necessary.

Please contact the responsible youth welfare office.

• In a personal conversation you will be shown possible help All participants (you, your child, the caregivers from the day group and the youth welfare office) meet for a help plan discussion. The aid plan specifies how the aid is to be designed and which objectives are to be achieved.
• If education in a day group seems to make sense, you can apply for educational aid.
• The Youth Welfare Office is looking for a suitable day group. You can express your wishes. If there are multiple options, you can select the day group.
• It is regularly checked whether the aid is still suitable.

The processing time varies, depending on the individual circumstances and the responsible body.

The costs for education in a day group are largely borne by the Youth Welfare Office. However, you must contribute to the costs to a reasonable extent. Please ask the responsible youth welfare office.