Companies are warning about the negative economic consequences of the daycare crisis. Numerous daycare centers nationwide are suffering from an acute shortage of staff.
Care times are no longer reliable due, among other things, to a lack of skilled workers and are often restricted. In addition, according to calculations by the Bertelsmann Foundation, there is a lacks of 400,000 daycare places.. Employer President Rainer Dulger sees the state above all as having a duty. "We can no longer afford such a failure of the system economically," he said.