Parents have a right to help with upbringing (HzE) if upbringing in accordance with the child’s or adolescent’s well-being is not guaranteed and help is suitable and necessary for his or her development. The task of the Youth Welfare Office is to provide an offer that corresponds to the respective individual educational needs. In Stuttgart, educational assistance is offered by the city and independent providers (§§ 27 ff. Social Code VIII). A distinction is made between outpatient, inpatient and - in some cases - day-care services. The integration assistance for mentally handicapped children and adolescents (according to §35a Social Code VIII) is also assigned to the subject area “educational assistance”.
Role of planning
In addition to the original planning tasks (quantitative and qualitative development of services), youth welfare planning also takes on the task of specialist controlling. This includes, among other things, interagency and interdepartmental events and working groups for quality development in selected issues. In this way, youth welfare planning ensures good communication between the HzE providers and the eleven socio-spatial areas. Together, city-wide quality standards are set and working papers are developed, such as in the “Framework Agreement on Assistance Planning and Service Provision for Aid to Education in Stuttgart”.
Current development topics
- Help with participation in education for children and young people with mental disabilities
- Inpatient services for children and their parents
- Inclusive design of the HzE services
- Designing cross-agency and cross-divisional further education programs
- Cooperation with other systems, such as child and adolescent psychiatry and schools
Downloads and links
- Framework agreement on assistance planning and service provision for educational assistance in StuttgartPDF-File 676,74 kB
- Caritas Association in Stuttgart (opens in a new tab)
- EVA Stuttgart (opens in a new tab)
- Youth welfare active (opens in a new tab)
- St. Josef gGmbH (opens in a new tab)
- Department of Educational Support at the Stuttgart Youth Welfare Office
