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Child daycare facilities; application for funding to cover operating costs

The Free State of Bavaria supports integrative day-care centers in covering their operating expenses.

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Purpose

The funding serves to cover funding gaps in the operating costs of integrative daycare facilities to partially compensate for these hardship cases in facilities with a supra-local catchment area.

Object

Funding is provided for the operating costs of integrative facilities with a supra-local catchment area that are not covered by funding under the Bavarian Child Education and Care Act (BayKiBiG).

Recipients of funding

Recipients of funding are municipalities and providers of integrative daycare facilities within the meaning of Art. 2 Para. 3 BayKiBiG.

Type and amount

The grant amounts to up to 40% of the eligible operating cost deficit per approval period (calendar year), up to a maximum of EUR 10,000 per facility.

Operating costs that exceed 1.5 times the state and municipal child-related funding according to the BayKiBiG are eligible for compensation.

The grant requires that

  • the recipient of the grant receives funding in accordance with the BayKiBiG during the approval period,
  • the municipalities concerned contribute to the operating cost deficit to be offset during the approval period in
  • at least the same amount as the state grant in accordance with these guidelines,
  • the integrative facility maintains an average staffing ratio of at least 1:10.0 during the approval period,
  • at least seven children with disabilities or at risk of significant disability attend the facility at the same time for at least six months of the kindergarten year,
  • the facility is of supra-local importance.

The facility is of supra-local importance if the children with disabilities or at risk of significant disabilities have their usual place of residence (Section 30 (3) sentence 2 of the First Book of the German Social Code (SGB I)) in at least three different municipalities for at least one period of six calendar months during the approval period.

  • supporting documents showing the amount of the funding gap for the grant period

Applications are submitted in writing by the funding recipient to the granting authority (district municipality to the public youth welfare organization; independent municipalities and public youth welfare organizations to the responsible government) as part of the final settlement for child-related funding in accordance with Art. 26 Para. 1 BayKiBiG.

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Applications for compensation of the operating cost deficit can be submitted to the approval authority in accordance with Art. 28 BayKiBiG within six months after the decision on child-related funding becomes final, but in any case by December 31 of the year following the approval period at the latest.

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Status: 13.05.2025
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