Are you looking for a childcare place for your child? In Salzgitter, your child can be looked after in a day care center (crèche/kindergarten) or in a day care center.

Child day care is an individual, family-oriented and flexible form of care in small groups.

To apply for a childcare place in a daycare center, please register in the parent portal (opens in a new tab).

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Before the regular childcare hours begin, your child will be slowly introduced to the required amount of childcare hours, first in your presence and then without you. This may take a few weeks. This allows your child to get to know their caregivers/educational staff. You also have the opportunity to get to know this specialist better during this time together and to build up trust.

This is important so that you can leave your child in the care with a good feeling. With you as the first person of trust, the child can adjust to the new environment and new people with less stress. The educational staff also benefit from a good settling-in period. This is because they learn a lot about your child from you during this time together.

There are individual settling-in concepts in every daycare center. Talk to each other about this.

Settling in can take around four weeks. Talk to the facility or daycare center about the exact dates and procedures.

Early intervention is a service for children between the ages of zero and six with an imminent or manifest disability. Early intervention is holistic and family-oriented. It is individually tailored to your child in order to specifically support and promote your child's development. You will also receive accompanying advice and support.

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The basic idea of integrative daycare in the form of integrative groups (crèche/kindergarten/after-school care) is the joint care and education of children with and without disabilities. In addition to this, inclusive groups are characterized by a smaller group size in order to do justice to all children in their development and to consider their individual needs.

The prerequisite for an integration place is an acknowledgement of costs for your child issued by the Integration Assistance Department of the Specialist Service for Social Affairs and Senior Citizens to cover the costs of joint care for children with and without disabilities (integration).

You can find integration groups for the crèche and kindergarten in the parents' portal (opens in a new tab) by filtering for integrative places.

An inclusive place is no more expensive for you than a regular place, so there are no extra costs for you.

A curative kindergarten is a daycare center for children who need more support in their development - for example due to a disability or developmental delay.

Specially trained staff work there to support the children individually, help them in their everyday lives and provide targeted support for their development.

A cost approval is also required for these places.

The curative education nurseries in Salzgitter are listed below.

A speech therapy kindergarten is a daycare center for children who have problems with speaking or understanding language.

The children receive targeted support there, for example through language exercises and special support, so that they can express themselves better and understand others better.

On behalf of social welfare providers and health insurance companies, the necessary reports are drawn up by the speech therapist of the state of Lower Saxony together with the doctor from the health authority (§ 35 SGB IX). The progress of the therapy is monitored.

The following options exist for speech therapy in special kindergartens:

• Speech therapy kindergarten (as partial inpatient speech therapy treatment)
• Kindergarten for the hearing impaired (as part-time inpatient speech therapy)
• Speech therapy in speech therapy centers (as inpatient speech therapy treatment)

The All-Day Support Act (GaFöG) is a federal law that sets out the legal entitlement to all-day support for primary school children. It will apply from the 2026/2027 school year for all children starting first grade.

Primary school children are to receive all-day care and support. This should give everyone the same opportunities.

From the start of the 2026/2027 school year, all pupils in the first grade will initially be entitled to eight hours of support per day. This entitlement will be extended by one grade level in subsequent years. From the 2029/2030 school year, all primary school children will then be entitled to all-day support in elementary school.

In addition, there are various providers offering a wide range of services for families, children and young people.

These are listed below.