Speech at the opening event for the child and family-friendly city on Wednesday, September 19, 2007, by Lord Mayor Frank Klingebiel.

What expectations do families have of their city? Lord Mayor Frank Klingebiel announces a telephone survey.

For Lord Mayor Frank Klingebiel, child and family friendliness in Salzgitter is and remains a central local political goal and the topic of the future.

Salzgitter is making a name for itself as a child and family-friendly city.

A child- and family-friendly Salzgitter was the theme of the kick-off event, to which Mayor Frank Klingebiel had invited guests to the town hall.

As part of the "Child-friendly Salzgitter" project, Mayor Frank Klingebiel plans to have the city council reduce kindergarten fees with effect from December 1.

The Salzgitter City Council has unanimously followed the initiative of Mayor Frank Klingebiel to significantly reduce daycare fees from December 1, 2007.

The wild hustle and bustle of the buccaneers of the Caribbean is moving to Salzgittersee. The project for a 4500 square meter water playground has now been presented by Mayor Frank Klingebiel.

As of today, August 1, 2008, parents in Salzgitter no longer have to pay parental contributions for the care of their children from the age of 3 until they start school.

The Economic Stimulus Program II will trigger investments in Salzgitter with a volume of around 11 million euros. Mayor Frank Klingebiel presented his administrative proposal today, Thursday, February 19, 2009.

Salzgitter has set out to become one of the most child- and family-friendly cities in Germany by 2015.

Today, Thursday, March 5, 2009, the city of Salzgitter took stock of its child and family friendliness in the council chamber of the town hall.

Parents can take advantage of childcare in daycare centers and in daycare centers. The parental contributions for childcare for children under 3 and from primary school age are the same in both forms.

Elisabeth Heister-Neumann, Lower Saxony's Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs, presented councilor Ekkehard Grunwald with the approval notices from the Economic Stimulus Program II (school sector) in the town hall.

Since Lord Mayor Frank Klingebiel took office, almost 26.2 million euros have been invested in Salzgitter as part of the school refurbishment program since 2007.

In a Germany-wide kindergarten comparison carried out by the magazine Eltern and the Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft (INSM), the city of Salzgitter came out on top.

30.06.2010 A working meeting of the European network "Cities for children" will take place in Salzgitter from September 8 to 10, 2010.

Salzgitter has marked its next stage on the way to becoming one of the most child- and family-friendly cities in Germany.

Mayor Frank Klingebiel gave the starting signal for "Guidelines - City with a Future" at the Hotel am See in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt on February 7, 2011.

Mayor Frank Klingebiel presented his planning considerations for the future school structure in Salzgitter on Wednesday, February 16, 2011.

The city of Salzgitter has achieved a proud interim result in its modernization, renovation and extension measures at schools: 61.6 million euros will have been invested by the end of the year.

14 working groups are currently developing the guidelines for Salzgitter's future. They are receiving scientific support from the Lower Saxony Municipal University of Applied Sciences for Administration.

Expanding childcare, Salzgittersee, attracting industry and the Ostfalia University: these are the lighthouse projects in the coming years with which the city of Salzgitter wants to make further progress.

The "Roxy-Helco" playground in the Ost- und Westsiedlung housing estate in Salzgitter-Bad has been given a facelift and officially opened for play.

Children and families have a special status in Salzgitter. When he took office in 2006, Mayor Frank Klingebiel declared family and education policy to be a top priority.

In Salzgitter, the "Early Help and Child Protection" network was launched at a kick-off event at the town hall in Lebenstedt.

With a symbolic ground-breaking ceremony, the city of Salzgitter's goal of having a model teaching kindergarten built at the BBS Fredenberg vocational school is now within reach.

As of August 1, 2013, there is a legal entitlement to a childcare place for children under the age of three if parents have registered three months in advance. 539 places are available to these parents.

Following the comprehensive expansion of nursery places in the Salzgitter area, the city of Salzgitter has launched many initiatives to improve the quality of the facilities.

Over the course of almost two years, more than 250 representatives from business, administration, institutions, organizations and associations worked in 14 project groups on the guidelines for "Salzgitter 2020" in a broad public dialogue.

The city of Salzgitter has achieved a great deal on its path of consistent and sustainable child, family and education policy. This is the interim result of 14 working groups.

Within just 5 months and 3 weeks, the "Fredolino" model kindergarten was built in the immediate vicinity of the BBS Fredenberg in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt. It opened on time on January 2.

The current guidelines for the promotion of children and young people in the city of Salzgitter, which came into force on April 1 by council resolution, are now available as a brochure hot off the press.