Overview of childcare

The Kita-Portal Jena is a central information and registration system for child day care in Jena. It offers you a comprehensive overview of all kindergartens and day care centers in the city. Parents can register their child in selected facilities via their own user account and receive feedback on the status of their registration via the system. Further detailed information can be found in the Kita-Portal Jena under FAQ.

The childminding team places children with a suitable childminder (childminder). Placement can be made on application from the time of the child's birth. Parents are entitled to information and advice on all aspects of child day care before submitting an application. As a result of an individual consultation or by e-mail, parents receive information about the places available with a childminder at the desired time of admission.

Individual childminders can also be registered directly via the Kita-Portal .

The support services offered as part of child day care in the city of Jena include various modules with different areas of responsibility. The contents of the individual modules are implemented by both public and private youth welfare organizations. This organizational structure requires close interface work between the partners involved. Management is carried out by the coordinating specialist advisory service of the City of Jena. This means that the public provider (Jena Youth Welfare Office) bears overall responsibility (Youth Welfare Office) in accordance with Section 79 SGB VIII.

The specific tasks of the specialist advisory service are set out in § 11 ThürKigaG.

With the overall responsibility/overall coordination formulated in the draft law, the local responsible body has formulated and established four focal points.

1. Coordination/control

• of inter-agency specialist consultations
• Integration into regional networks for early childhood education
• Contact person for educators at daycare facilities
• Contact person for parents' issues
• Quality development and evaluation process for specialist advice in the city of Jena

2. Networking

• Management and coordination of educational working groups, e.g. early help/child protection working group in child daycare
• Organization and implementation of specialistdaysfor daycare centre managers

3. Further training

• Modular training courses for teachers to become "child protection officers"

4. Information

• Creation and continuation of the "Child protection folder - recommendations and handouts for the city of Jena"

In cooperation with the Youth and Education Department/Coordinating Advisory Service and the Youth Welfare Department/Early Help Department, a compendium of materials on the topic of child protection has been created. Working papers from the further training courses and important documents are brought together in the child protection folder. These are intended to serve as a guide for educators when implementing the protection mandate and in the event of child endangerment in child daycare facilities/child daycare. This folder is a recommendation and supplement to the child protection documents or documents of the corresponding quality management system provided by the respective provider. Interested parties are welcome to contact the coordinating specialist advisory service.

Contact: Sandra Wiegand (coordinating specialist advisor for child daycare facilities), Youth and Education Department, Tel.: 0049 3641 492614, e-mail: sandra.wiegand@jena.de

If you are an educational professional in a childcare facility, a childminder or a parent and have questions about child development and a child's special developmental needs, you can receive advice and support from the municipal educational advisory service. This is a low-threshold service to identify support needs as early as possible and initiate suitable support measures. The aim is to jointly develop new perspectives and ideas for educational work with children with special developmental needs. Parents and family members are supported and accompanied with their concerns and professionals are strengthened in their interaction with parents. The Educational Advisory Service works in accordance with §8(3) ThürKigaG.