Overview
- Freie Wohlfahrtspflege, representing about 8,300 of 10,800 Kitas, called the draft unacceptable and urged Minister Josefine Paul to pull it after a short holiday response window.
- Critics reject the planned core-time staffing that concentrates qualified educators into five hours, warning a 45‑hour booking could leave 20 hours as supervision rather than education.
- Plans to end the special subsidy for single‑group Kitas from summer 2028 would jeopardize roughly 480 facilities with more than 6,000 places, according to the association.
- Providers decry added reporting duties and say a previously promised €200 million increase in base funding is now only time‑limited to 2030/31, calling this a breach of earlier agreements.
- The ministry defends the package, citing €200 million more annually from August 2027, a €200 million one‑off for the coming year, €1.5 billion for investments and a personnel offensive of at least €50 million, as the bill advances toward cabinet review for the 2027/28 start.