Cit of daycare in Bremen: Almost 2,000 places remain unused!

Bremen reports 25,605 daycare places for 2025/26, but the need remains high in districts such as Walle. Relaxation for parents?
Bremen reports 25,605 daycare places for 2025/26, but the need remains high in districts such as Walle. Relaxation for parents? (Symbolbild/MB)

Cit of daycare in Bremen: Almost 2,000 places remain unused!

Walle, Deutschland - in Bremen are gratifying changes in the area of ​​daycare centers. According to Buten and Binnen there are over 25,000 care places available for the coming kindergarten year, which exceeds the number of registrations from Bremen children. A total of 23,919 children are registered for urban institutions, which means that almost 2,000 places are still free. Education Senator Sascha Aulepp (SPD) described this situation as a "relaxation of the situation in the daycare area".

The positive development is the result of an extensive daycare expansion in recent years. 14 new daycare centers were opened and over 1,000 additional places were created. Nevertheless, not everything is vain: Especially in districts such as Gröpelingen, Huchting, Walle and Blumenthal, the offers remain behind the need. Here only eight out of ten children aged three to six years have a daycare center.

challenges remain

Although the educational authority speaks of improvement, the need remains. Especially in districts with a high proportion of children with support needs, it will be necessary to create further places. This challenge is not new; The lack of daycare places in Bremen was an urgent topic for years. Volksstimme reports that there is a considerable increase in the number of children with support needs, which makes the situation more complicated.

Further attention applies to the registration of children from migrant families. Often, many of these children are registered too late or not for a daycare center. In order to counteract this, the educational authority plans to contact families without a daycare center to Pentecost, including through multilingual information letter.

A look outside the box

Viewed nationwide, the situation does not look quite as rosy. As the Tagesschau reports, there are currently no 400,000 daycare places in Germany, and in particular West Germany shows a high lack of space. This situation, which is further exacerbated by a persistent shortage of skilled workers, urgently requires a need for action in order to achieve noticeable improvements by 2030.

in Bremen, a positive picture can still be seen that is feeding from intensive expansion efforts and a falling birth rate. These gratifying developments in the daycare landscape give parents hope and show that the city is working on solving the challenges with a good hand.

However, the future of early childhood education remains a central topic, since the demands and the need for care continue to increase. It will be exciting to observe how developments will be shaped in the coming year.

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