Childcare advice
Family Service Office of the City of Hanover
The Family Service Office of the State Capital of Hannover is just a few steps away from Hannover's central station. You can get personal advice and information on family matters, including a wide variety of brochures and flyers.
Advice on child care services, e.g.
- day nursery
- children day care
- kindergarten
- for schoolchildren
- during vacation
The Family Service Office is also the central point of contact for children day care within the city of Hannover. With this kind of care, children are being looked after in their domestic homes, in the home of a professional childminder, or in special premises rented for that purpose.
Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 24
30159 Hannover
Family Service Office of the City of Hannover
Tel.: +49 511 168-43535
Fax: +49 511 168-41170
Registration portal for child day care in Hanover
With this application portal, the State Capital Hannover gives you the opportunity to find information on the city’s childcare provisions and to apply for places in one or more day care centers.
Here, you can get to know more about the provisions of the different childcare authorities and day care centers regarding Krippe (day nursery), kindergarten and Hort (after school day care).
Childcare services in the Hannover metropolitan area
Childcare Hanover
With this search function you have the possibility to search for childcare offers according to different criteria and to find currently available childcare places.
Information portal on day care for children in Hanover
In addition to the individual childcare options, the City of Hanover provides you here with comprehensive information on all aspects of childcare for children between 0 and 12 years of age and on how the portal works.
Whether you as a parent want to find out about the care options, need information as a pedagogical professional or are generally interested in topics related to childcare: All current and relevant information is comprehensively provided here.
Legal entitlement to a childcare place
From the age of one until the age of three, every child is entitled to a place in a daycare center or in daycare. The extent of the daily support depends on the individual needs.
From the age of three until starting school, every child is entitled to attend a daycare center. The entitlement applies in principle to attendance at a morning group. If a sufficient number of places cannot be provided, the child may be referred to an equivalent afternoon group or a children's playgroup.
The municipalities (counties, cities and communities) are responsible for fulfilling the respective entitlement, as they perform the task of the local youth welfare organization.
Daycare centers in Hanover by provider
Different providers - whether municipal, church or private - offer childcare places in daycare centers.
The state capital of Hannover has a diverse landscape of providers in institutional childcare:
The Daycare Centers Division of the City of Hanover is itself the provider of 43 daycare centers, where children are cared for in the various forms of care - crèche, kindergarten and after-school care - according to age. In open child and youth work, there are a further 7 after-school care centers in play parks.
114 day care centers have also been handed over by the city to the independent welfare associations for operational management and the city covers the running costs by granting subsidies.
46 association-owned day care centers, 167 parent initiatives and 89 other facilities supplement the city's overall child care offerings. These facilities also receive financial subsidies from the city.
A total of 24,521 places are available in 466 facilities within the framework of institutional childcare services.
These services are supplemented by 1,466 daycare places. The daycare options are primarily used by children of crèche age.
(As of October 1, 2019)
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Fluxx – Emergency care
Support in the event of childcare breakdowns
If the family network does not take effect, the regular care of your child fails or no solution can be organized in the personal environment for relatives in need of support, "Fluxx" offers immediate advice and support to parents or relatives.
Info portal "my family service"
Achieving a good work-life balance is important. Because we know that many employees also have family obligations, e.g. looking after younger and older children, or caring for elderly relatives or those in need of care. That's why we are now providing you with additional support in the form of the pme Familienservice knowledge portal. This online platform offers you the opportunity to obtain needs-based and detailed information about "childcare" and "relatives in need of care" at any time and any place. The content is constantly updated by our partner's specialist departments, saving you time-consuming research of your own. You are also welcome to use the integrated, free e-services.
The registration is only possible with a TiHo email account. Important to know: this new online-platform is also available in english language.
