This project is intended to test the cooperation and interlinking of after-school care facilities and all-day elementary school.
Why this pilot project?
The increasing expansion of elementary school in Lower Saxony into all-day elementary school means that the extension of school hours into the afternoon has meant that traditional after-school care in the afternoons has become less important in some cases. On the other hand, there is still a clear need for after-school care, even after school hours and during vacation periods. The question must therefore be clarified: How can schools (state) and after-school care (supervising youth welfare services / local authorities) work together in such a way that education and care for children of primary school age is possible under one roof and with consistent staffing levels, even after 3.30 pm?
Parents, school authorities and local authority child and youth welfare services therefore have a great interest in close staffing links between all-day elementary school and after-school care in order to ensure that the transition from school to after-school care is as smooth and simple as possible.
Procedure of the pilot project
At the moment, the framework conditions are being discussed within the pilot project, which will then be put into practice in the spring. All of this is taking place within the framework of informal public participation by interested parents, the professionals from the school and daycare center involved, as well as the children and young people with after-school care experience.
With a view to a possible legal anchoring of the "cooperative after-school care center" in the form of a change to the Child Day Care Centers Act, a legal review of the results of all four participating municipalities is to be carried out by the state after the end of the pilot project.
Participating schools and kindergartens
The city of Salzgitter is testing the pilot project with the "Am Sonnenberg" elementary school and the "Kigaluga" daycare center in Gebhardshagen as well as the Kranichdamm elementary school and the daycare centers "St. Lukas", St. Joseph and Pusteblume.