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Request education in a day group Partnerschaft und Familie

Your child has problems in everyday life or in his development? As a parent, do you need support in raising your child? Then educating your child in a day group can be a possible help.

  • Basic information

    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 support service. It may also be suitable for young adults in accordance with §41 SGB VIII.
    A day group is what is known as partial inpatient help. Your child is looked after in a day group during the week after school. Afterwards, however, they can stay with their family and thus in their familiar surroundings.
    Education in a day group means

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

    The aims of education in a day group are

    • to strengthen the child
    • to strengthen the parents
    • to strengthen the parent-child relationship
    • Keeping the child in the family

    Requirements

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

  • Procedure

    Contact the responsible youth welfare office.

    • All parties involved (you, your child, the caregivers from the day group and the Youth Welfare Office) will meet to discuss the assistance plan. In the help plan, it is determined how the help is to be structured and which goals are to be achieved.
    • If education in a day group seems to make sense, you can apply for help with education.
    • The Youth Welfare Office will look for a suitable day group. You can express your wishes. If there are several options, you can choose the day group.
    • There will be regular checks to see if the help is still suitable.

  • Necessary Documents
    • identity card/passport

      If a German identity card/passport is to be authenticated, a written proof of what this authentication is required for must be brought along.

    • Proof of custody

      For example: birth certificate, information from the custody register or decision of the family court on custody.

  • Competent Department

  • Online Services

    • Help for upbringing online
      With this online service, citizens who have been identified as needing help in a personal counseling session at the youth welfare office can make the subsequent application for help online. The online service also offers an information platform with topics on child and youth welfare and child endangerment.

  • Fees / Costs

    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 about this.

  • Deadlines & processing time

    How long does it take to process

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

  • Legal Bases

  • More Information

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The official information in German is complete and correct. 13.11.2025

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