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A nationwide expansion of the care time at German daycare centers is not foreseeable in view of the Corona crisis and the shortage of skilled workers.
A survey by WELT AM SONNTAG shows that municipal daycare centers in major German cities lack around ten percent of their employees.
In Munich and Düsseldorf the quota is slightly higher, in Frankfurt 15 percent are missing, in Dortmund and Stuttgart it is currently around 20 percent.
The independent organizations also complain about high bottlenecks.
Many child care centers have currently reduced their care time by ten hours a week and strictly separate the groups.
Especially in the early and late shifts, groups were merged in most facilities before the Corona crisis.
Since this is no longer allowed, restrictions occur again and again in most facilities.
Often it would not be possible to extend the care hours if the groups remained separate.
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However, if the daycare centers allow the groups to mix up again, the risk of infection increases and tracking becomes more difficult.
In addition, more employees and children would have to be quarantined in an outbreak than would be the case in separate groups.
The daycare centers absolutely want to avoid that.
Accepting a higher risk of infection should "not even begin to be up for debate," says Jens Schubert, head of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (Awo), who runs more than 2500 daycare centers across Germany.
According to Schubert, the main thing now is to vaccinate to prevent further failures.
For a few days now, daycare workers have had high priority when it comes to vaccination.
The states and municipalities now have to act quickly, he says.
He advocates mobile vaccination teams.
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Source: Welt am Sonntag