Apply for education in a day group
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.
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 educational support.
- It receives support with integration into school and the social environment.
- It learns how to interact with other children and how to deal with conflicts in a group.
- They learn how to organize their everyday life and are given suggestions for meaningful leisure activities.
- Parents are closely involved, for example through counseling sessions, parents' evenings or parent-child meetings.
- The aims of education in a day group are
- Strengthening the child,
- the strengthening of the parents
- to strengthen the parent-child relationship
- keeping the child in the family.
Contact the responsible youth welfare office.
You will be shown possible help in a personal meeting. All parties involved (you, your child, the caregivers from the day group and the youth welfare office) meet for a help plan discussion. The help plan sets out how the help is to be organized and what goals are to be achieved.
If education in a day group seems appropriate, you can submit an application for educational assistance.
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.
Regular checks are carried out to determine whether the help is still suitable.
the local youth welfare office
- You are the person with custody of a child (parent or guardian).
- You feel overwhelmed with the upbringing of the child.
- Help with raising your child in a day group is suitable and necessary (assessed by the youth welfare office).
- An important prerequisite for the success of the service is your willingness to accept help and work towards change.
- identity card,
- If applicable, proof of custody, for example:
- Birth certificate,
- Information from the custody register,
- Family court decision on custody.
If necessary, further documents; this will be communicated by the responsible youth welfare office.
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.
The processing time varies, depending on the individual circumstances and the responsible office.
Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Labor, Health and Equality
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
