Registration of a child in the nursery, kindergarten or day care

Child day care includes the care and support of your child in a child day care facility (crèche, kindergarten, after-school care) or a child day care center.

In order to register your child for child day care, you need a child ID. You will automatically receive this by post in November before your child's 1st birthday.

If you do not have the ID number, you can apply for it at the Parent Service of the Senator for Children and Education (see contact person).

Children's day care includes the care and support of your child in a children's day care facility or a children's day care center.

The day care facilities have the following tasks:

• They promote the child's development into a self-determined, independent and socially competent personality.
• They support and supplement upbringing and education in the family.
• They help parents to better reconcile work, child rearing and family care.

The support mandate encompasses the upbringing, education and care of the child. It relates to the child's social, emotional, physical and mental development. It includes the teaching of guiding values and rules.

The support should be based on the following characteristics of the children:

• Age
• level of development
• Linguistic and other abilities
• life situation
• interests and needs
• ethnic origin

The placement of a childcare place in a child daycare facility takes place in cooperation with the responsible local youth welfare organization.

Requirements

A child who is 1 year old or older is entitled to early childhood education in a daycare facility or in a daycare center until his or her 3rd birthday.

If both parents are unable to care for their child themselves, children under 1 year of age may already be entitled to early childhood support. This is the case, for example, if both parents work.

From the child's 3rd birthday until he or she starts school, the child is entitled to support in a daycare facility.