The mood among kindergarten teachers is currently less splendid. A large protest action is planned for the coming week in Vienna, for example. Above all, a lack of resources is lamented.
The coalition was all the more anxious on Wednesday to express appreciation for the staff and to promise more money. The aim is to further improve the compatibility of work and family, as Family Minister Susanne Raab (ÖVP) explained. Consequently, you have to improve when it comes to opening times. Early language learning should also be strengthened in the interests of integration as early as possible.
Green club chairwoman Sigrid Maurer wants to oblige the countries to certain standards. She did not go into detail. But Fassmann shares your goal. It is also a question of “homologating” the “Fleckerlteppich” ruling in Austria. You definitely want to take your time for the negotiations. Because the current 15a agreement between the federal and state governments does not expire until the end of August 2022.
Since the start of the federal government’s cost sharing in kindergartens in 2008 (introduction of the compulsory last year of kindergarten), the childcare quota has risen from around 87 to 94 percent for three to six-year-olds, according to the Council of Ministers’ lecture, and for under-three-year-olds it has risen from 14 to just under 30 percent still below the EU’s Barcelona target of 33 percent. In the new 15a agreement, in addition to longer and more flexible opening times, a focus should be placed on the creation of places for under-three-year-olds. In addition, the aim is to analyze how those six percent of children can be reached who do not yet attend an elementary educational institution in the penultimate year of kindergarten before starting school.
The principles of the planned agreement also contain clear funding and billing criteria and a clear distribution key. The early linguistic promotion recently criticized in a report by the Court of Auditors should also be improved: The promotion concepts of the nine federal states are to be merged, there should be transparent criteria for the allocation of resources and all elementary education teachers should participate in a course for early linguistic promotion be committed. The agenda also includes the possible introduction of uniform minimum quality standards in educational institutions as well as in personnel development and in the training, further education and training of kindergarten teachers and assistant staff.
