[Translate to English:] Institutionalisierte Betreuung

• Crèches (ages 1 to 3), kindergarten (ages 3 to 6) and after school care clubs (elementary school ages): Fixed position in the child care institution with professional educators, there has to be paid a monthly charge.
  
  Advantages:
  - Fixed position for child care
  - Educational concept and qualified carers
  Disadvantages:
  - Rather inflexible times of care (fixed times of collect and bring)
  - Often restricted hours of opening (not available in the evening, holidays, weekends)
  - The monthly charge is independent on the frequency of utilisation
  - No possibilities for child care for under one-year-old children

• Children’s groups: Fixed position in the child care institution with professional educators, a maximum of 14 children per group (possible for all ages)
  
  Advantages:
  - Fixed position for child care
  - Educational concept and qualified carers
  - Small size of the group (a maximum of 14 children)
  - Child care is possible for all ages
  - Demand-oriented and individual models of care
  Disadvantages:
  - Often restricted hours of opening (not available in the evening, holidays, weekends)
  - Rather inflexible times of care (fixed times of collect and bring)
  - To some extent high charges without possibilities of aid

• Full-time schools: Children are supervised at school also outside the teaching times. But certainly at the moment there is a lack of appropriate offers.
  
  Advantages:
  - Fixed position for child care
  Disadvantages:
  - Rather inflexible times of care (fixed times of collect and bring)
  - Often restricted hours of opening (not available in the evening, holidays, weekends)