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Daycare centres must protect children's rights!

In 2000, the fol­lowing was laid down in the German Civil Code: "Children have the right to a non-violent up­bringing. Phy­sical pu­nish­ments, psy­cho­lo­gical in­juries and other de­grading me­a­sures are not per­mitted" (Section 1631 (2) BGB). Vio­lence against children has many faces. In daycare centres, children ex­pe­rience dif­ferent forms of everyday vio­lence: for ex­ample, coercion, such as when they are asked to taste or eat so­me­thing. When they are rest­ricted in their freedom of mo­vement, when they are shamed or pu­nished. Scolding, shouting at them or grabbing them roughly by the arm is also abusive.

The BiKA study ("Par­ti­ci­pation of children in everyday daycare", 2018 – 2020) used vi­deo­graphy in crèche groups to in­ves­tigate how the par­ti­ci­pation rights of the youngest children are im­ple­mented in everyday life: https://www.pina- re​search​.de/​f​o​r​s​c​h​u​n​g​/​f​o​r​s​c​h​u​n​g​s​p​r​o​j​e​k​t​e​/​b​i​ka/.

Ac­cording to the re­sults of the study, for ex­ample, almost half of the daycare centre groups sur­veyed had phy­sical contact with children during lunch that crossed boun­daries. In just as many meal­times, not all children are able to decide for them­selves how much they want to eat or drink. Rest­ric­tions on children's mo­ve­ments can also be ob­served in almost every second mealtime si­tuation observed.

It can't stay like this! In agreement with many col­le­agues from practice and science, we are calling for this:

  1. Daycare centres need more and well-trained edu­ca­tional pro­fes­sionals. They need more time for pre­pa­ration and follow-up, for re­flection, team mee­tings and further training. The childcare ratio needs to be si­gni­fi­cantly improved.

  2. Vio­lence must not be part of everyday life in daycare centres. Mis­be­ha­viour must be de­fined more clearly. Pe­dago­gical be­ha­viour based on children's rights must be a priority for staff and team de­ve­lo­pment. The training and further edu­cation of edu­ca­tional pro­fes­sionals on children's par­ti­ci­pation and pro­tection rights must be im­proved and ex­panded immediately.

  3. Children must be able to com­plain ef­fec­tively, as must their parents. To this end, the le­gally re­quired com­plaints me­cha­nisms in daycare centres and in­de­pendent om­budsman of­fices must fi­nally be sys­te­ma­ti­cally established.

  4. We need more know­ledge about how children's par­ti­ci­pation and pro­tection rights are ac­tually rea­lised in daycare centres and after-school care centres, and how the children see this. This is the only way to de­velop ef­fective ways of in­ter­vention and pre­vention. To do this, we need more mo­ni­toring and more research.

In safe places, children's rights are pro­tected overall. In safe places, children ex­pe­rience self-de­ter­mi­nation and co-de­ter­mi­nation, can fully de­velop their per­so­nality and are pro­tected from dis­cri­mi­nation and over­s­tepping boundaries.

Prof Dr Frauke Hil­de­brandt (Potsdam Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sci­ences, iffe e.V.)
Prof. Dr Ca­therine Walter-Laager (Uni­versity of Graz, PEP Centre) Bianka Per­gande (German League for the Child)
Katrin Macha (ISTA In­stitute for the Si­tua­tional Approach/​INA Berlin gGmbH) Prof Dr Jörg Maywald (German League for the Child)
Prof Dr Gerlind Große (Potsdam Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

Press contact:
Bianka Per­gande (German League for the Child)
0152 – 36 93 86 05
post@​liga-​kind.​de

Link to the online pe­tition:
open​pe​tition​.de/​!​c​h​i​l​d​r​i​g​h​t​s​p​r​o​t​e​c​t​ion

Links to current reporting:

Si­gna­tories of the petition:

  • Al­ter­native Welfare As­so­ciation SOAL e. V. Hamburg

  • AWO Dis­trict As­so­ciation Potsdam e. V.

  • BEVKi – Fe­deral Parents' As­so­ciation for Children in Day Care Centres and Childminders

  • Bun­des­netzwerk Fort­bildung und Be­ratung in der Früh­päd­agogik e.V.

  • Deut­sches Kin­der­hilfswerk e.V.

  • Dia­ko­ni­sches Werk Berlin-Bran­denburg-schle­sische Ober­lausitz e.V.

  • GEW – Trade Union for Edu­cation and Science

  • In­itiative Fa­milien e.V.

  • Kin­der­Rech­te­Forum non-profit organisation

  • Fe­deral As­so­ciation for Child Protection

  • LKEB – Lan­des­kit­ael­tern­beirat Brandenburg

  • Na­tional Co­alition Germany – Network for the Im­ple­men­tation of the UN Con­vention on the Rights of the Child e.V.

  • OUTLAW.the foun­dation

  • Pa­ri­tä­ti­scher Lan­des­verband Bran­denburg e.V.

  • As­so­ciation of Childcare Pro­fes­sionals Ba­varia e.V.

  • As­so­ciation of Childcare Pro­fes­sionals Baden-Würt­temberg e.V.

  • As­so­ciation of Childcare Pro­fes­sionals Hesse e.V.

  • As­so­ciation of Childcare Pro­fes­sionals Lower Saxony-Bremen e.V.

  • As­so­ciation for Daycare Pro­fes­sionals NRW e.V.

  • Rhi­neland-Pa­la­tinate As­so­ciation of Childcare Professionals

  • As­so­ciation Kita-Fach­kräfte Sachsen und Sachsen-Anhalt- Die Stimme aus der Praxis e.V.

  • ver.di – United Ser­vices Union

  • Zarah Abend­schön-Sawall (In­itiative Fa­milien e.V.)

  • Amna Janne Akeela (Prac­tical support & spe­cialist coun­selling, Hamburg)

  • Dr Elke Alsago (Fe­deral Group Leader ver.di Edu­cation, Training and Social Work)

  • Andrea Asch (Dia­ko­ni­sches Werk Berlin-Bran­denburg-schle­sische Ober­lausitz e.V.) 2

  • Deniz Atas (Di­ploma in Social Edu­cation, Berlin)

  • Dr Jasmin Bem­preiksz-Luthardt (PEP Centre Berlin)

  • Detlef Bicker (training and further edu­cation pro­vider for daycare centres, Karlsruhe)

  • Katrin Bo­gen­schütz-Langanki (Office for Family, Schools and Clubs, Department

    Child day care, Filderstadt)

  • Prof Dr Karin Borck (Potsdam Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Christina Brauner (BVZ GmbH day-care centres, Frankfurt am Main)

  • Gerhild Damm (free­lance lec­turer in the field of early childhood, Berlin)

  • Sina Denecke (In­itiative Fa­milien e.V.)

  • Heike Dickel-Kanzok (Spe­cialist coun­selling city ad­mi­nis­tration, Lud­wigs­hafen am Rhein)

  • Dr Ste­phanie Din­ke­laker (In­itiative Fa­milien e.V.)

  • Detlef Dis­kowski (Pro­jects and Consultancy)

  • Prof Dr Lars Eichen (Uni­versity of Graz)

  • Chris­tiane Eng­länder (Practice for Psy­cho­social Coun­selling & Training, Ludwigshafen)

  • Prof. Dr habil. Kerstin Eschwege (Clara Hoff­bauer Potsdam Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Petra Ev­an­s­chitzky (free­lance con­sultant in the field of early childhood edu­cation, Stuttgart)

  • Kerstin Feist (day care centres, iseF and spe­cialist team for child pro­tection BVZ GmbH, Frankfurt)

  • Katrin Findert (free­lance con­sultant in the field of early childhood edu­cation, Augsburg)

  • Dr Anne Fischbach (Leibniz In­stitute for Re­search and In­for­mation in Edu­cation, Frankfurt)

  • Prof. Dr mult. Was­silios Ft­he­nakis (Pro­fessor of Edu­ca­tional Science, Ho­norary Pre­sident Didacta)

  • Gisela Fux (Mu­ni­cipal Day Care Centre, Stuttgart)

  • Prof Dr Ca­terina Gawrilow (Uni­versity of Tübingen)

  • Dewi Geithner (Her­manns­werder Vo­ca­tional Schools)

  • Prof Dr Do­rothee Gut­knecht (Pro­testant Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sci­ences Freiburg)

  • Ass. jur. Hartmut Ger­stein (author and trainer and former head of the department

    Child day care centres and child day care Rhi­neland-Pa­la­tinate State Youth Welfare Office)

  • Dr Ramiro Glauer (Potsdam Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Regina Grafe (AWO In­te­gra­ti­onskita Son­nen­blume, Cottbus)

  • Daniel Grein (Fe­deral As­so­ciation for Child Protection)

  • Evi Gruber (Jahn­areal children's centre, Filderstadt)

  • Lena Grüber (pu­blisher Was mit Kindern WamiKi, Berlin)

  • Eva Grüber (Verlag Was mit Kindern WamiKi, Berlin)

  • Ma­nuela Gruhl (German Adult Edu­cation Centre, Cottbus)

  • Rita Ha­berkorn (formerly of the German Youth In­stitute DJI and the ISTA In­stitute for the

    Situationsansatz/​INA Berlin gGmbH)

  • Anna Harsch (early childhood and social pe­dagogue, AMI Montessori pe­dagogue, Berlin)

  • Karin Hin­kelbein-Clauß (Office for Family, Schools and Clubs, Fil­der­stadt) 3

  • Holger Hofmann (Deut­sches Kin­der­hilfswerk e.V.)

  • Ka­riane Höhn (free­lance con­sultant in the field of early childhood edu­cation, Tübingen)

  • Sandra Hörner (Dach­verband Stutt­garter Eltern-Kind-Gruppen e.V.)

  • Anne Huber-Kebbe (Learning awakens po­tential!, Merzhausen)

  • Heike Hüll­sieck (Private spe­cia­lised school for social pe­dagogy and cu­rative edu­cation, Bremen)

  • Beate Irskens (expert in the daycare centre and youth welfare sector, Kelkheim)

  • Petra Jurczyk (You and You pu­bli­shing house, Geislingen)

  • An­dreas Ka­c­zynski (Pa­ri­tä­ti­scher Lan­des­verband Bran­denburg e.V.)

  • Ca­tharina Kahl (LKEB – Lan­des­kit­ael­tern­beirat Brandenburg)

  • Prof. Dr phil. An­negret Klassert (Clara Hoff­bauer Potsdam Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Julia Klopp (Her­manns­werder Vo­ca­tional Schools)

  • Prof Dr Raingard Knauer (Kiel Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Me­lanie Krause (As­so­ciation of Childcare Pro­fes­sionals Lower Saxony-Bremen e.V.)

  • Prof Dr Karsten Krauskopf (Potsdam Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Maren Kremer (As­so­ciation for Daycare Pro­fes­sionals NRW e.V.)

  • Jenny Krey­enberg (Her­manns­werder Vo­ca­tional Schools)

  • Ariane Krüger-Haas (Head of Early Edu­cation and Family Ser­vices, Weiterstadt)

  • Ann-Kathrin Kühn (Theodor-Körner-Grund­schule Leipzig)

  • Ursula Kühn (Her­manns­werder Vo­ca­tional Schools)

  • Anna-Maria Ku­ricová (In­itiative Fa­milien e.V.)

  • Bianca Lange (Her­manns­werder Vo­ca­tional Schools)

  • Barbara Leitner (trainer for non-violent com­mu­ni­cation, process fa­ci­li­tator, trainer, coach and

    Author, Berlin)

  • Ve­ronika Lindner (Ba­varian As­so­ciation of Childcare Professionals)

  • Birgit Lommel (Day-care centres for children Mannheim, Mannheim)

  • Marika Maurer (Mu­ni­cipal Kin­der­garten, Filderstadt)

  • Prof Dr Claudia Meier Ma­gistretti (Lu­cerne Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sci­ences and Arts)

  • Vera Mengler (As­so­ciation of Childcare Pro­fes­sionals Hesse)

  • Prof Dr em. Hilbert Meyer (Carl von Os­sietzky Uni­versity, Oldenburg)

  • Prof Dr Peggy Meyer-Hansel (Clara Hoff­bauer Potsdam Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Prof Dr Na­tascha Naujok (Pro­testant Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sci­ences Berlin)

  • Prof Dr Sandra Niebuhr-Siebert (Clara Hoff­bauer Potsdam Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Prof Ludger Pesch (Di­rector Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus)

  • Prof. Dr phil. habil. Manfred Pfiffner (Zurich Uni­versity of Te­acher Education)

  • Ulrike Pohlmann (IBEB Social Sci­ences Ko­blenz Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Ass. Prof Eva Pölzl-Ste­fanec (Uni­versity of Graz)

  • Irina Prüm (BEVKi – Fe­deral Parents' As­so­ciation for Children in Day Care Centres and Childminders)

  • Philipp Rahn (Pe­dago­gical Coun­selling Mit­telhof e.V.)

  • Prof Dr Regina Rem­s­perger-Kehm (Fulda Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Heike Riedmann (In­itiative Fa­milien e.V.)

  • Markus Ritter (ife – In­stitute for Ele­mentary Edu­cation, Kassel)

  • Si­bylle Roth­kegel (psy­cho­the­rapist, su­per­visor, lec­turer, Berlin)

  • Prof Dr Jea­nette Roos (Hei­delberg Uni­versity of Education)

  • Prof Dr Maxine Sab­o­rowski (Clara Hoff­bauer Potsdam Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Sabine Sand­maier (Dis­trict Office Main-Tauber-Kreis)

  • Klaudia Schäfer (D‑A-CH German speaking groups for non-violent com­mu­ni­cation e.V.)

  • Dr Andy Schieler (In­stitute for Edu­cation, Up­bringing and Childcare in Rhineland-Palatinate)

  • Karin Schloß­hauer (Ju­gend­hilfe Cottbus ge­mein­nützige GmbH)

  • Nina-Sofia Schmidt (ISTA In­stitute for the Si­tua­tional Approach/​INA Berlin gGmbH)

  • Prof Dr Alex­andra Schmidt-Wenzel (Potsdam Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Prof Dr Armin Schneider (IBEB Social Sci­ences Ko­blenz Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Helia Schneider (ad­vanced training in ele­mentary edu­cation su­per­vision & coaching)

  • Bea­trice Schubert (lan­guage daycare centre con­sultant, Neulußheim)

  • Ute Schubert-Stähr (Re­source Workshop, Bamberg)

  • Ingrid Schulz (Training and Coun­selling in Early Childhood Edu­cation, Kressbonn)

  • Do­rothea Schulze (training of­ficer for early childhood topics, Stuttgart)

  • Angela Schweers (AWO Be­zirks­verband Potsdam e. V.)

  • Katrin Schwert­feger (D‑A-CH German speaking groups for non-violent com­mu­ni­cation e.V.)

  • Doreen Sie­bernick (GEW – Trade Union for Edu­cation and Science)

  • Anika Smits (As­so­ciation for Daycare Pro­fes­sionals NRW e.V.)

  • Ca­rolin Stock (Spe­cialist coun­selling for day-care centres, Bretten)

  • Dirk Stoewer (Bun­des­netzwerk Fort­bildung und Be­ratung in der Früh­päd­agogik e. V. and

    Day care centres nor­thwest Berlin)

  • Prof Dr Be­nedikt Stur­zen­hecker (Uni­versity of Hamburg)

  • Claudia Theobald (Rhi­neland-Pa­la­tinate As­so­ciation of Childcare Professionals)

  • Prof Dr Stefan Thomas (Potsdam Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Prof Dr Thomas Trautmann (Uni­versity of Hamburg)

  • Claudia Un­gefehr (As­so­ciation of Daycare Pro­fes­sionals Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt – The Voice from the Field)

  • Yvonne Un­gerer (trainer and coun­sellor for early lan­guage edu­cation, Kassel)

  • Petra Wagner (Spe­cialist Centre for Pre­judice-Aware Edu­cation and Up­bringing at ISTA)

    In­stitute for the Si­tua­tional Approach/​INA Berlin gGmbH)

  • Prof Dr Sabine Walper (German League for the Child, Pre­sident) 5

  • Suse Weisse (Clara Hoff­bauer Potsdam Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Dr Monika Wertfein (State In­stitute for Early Childhood Edu­cation and Media Competence)

  • Eva Wichtl (Spe­cialist coun­selling daycare centre)

  • Prof Dr Anne Wih­stutz (Pro­testant Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sci­ences Berlin)

  • Monika Wilhelm (Ma­gis­trate of the City of Weiterstadt)

  • Bri­gitte Jo­hanna Will (Coun­selling & Coa­ching for daycare centres, Bavaria)

  • Dagmar Windl (Her­manns­werder Vo­ca­tional Schools)

  • Ursula Winklhofer (German Youth In­stitute DJI)

  • Dr Ca­roline Wronski (Potsdam Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sciences)

  • Carola Wun­derlich-Knietsch (Mu­ni­cipal Day Care Centres, Munich)

  • Gerda Wunschel (INA.KINDER.GARTEN gGmbH)

  • Oliver Zierdt (AWO In­te­gra­ti­onskita Son­nen­blume, Cottbus)

  • Sylvia Zöller (Coun­selling and Coa­ching, Karlsruhe)

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