The background to this decision is that from the 2026/27 school year, there will be a legal entitlement to all-day care for pupils of primary school age, starting with year 1, on the basis of the All-Day Support Act. This comprises eight hours on all five working days of the week and during the school vacations, with the exception of a four-week closure period.
District wants mixed model of all-day school and extracurricular care
At the four special education and counseling centers (SBBZ) run by the district, there is currently no all-day offer to this extent. However, they are already organizationally all-day schools with a total of 34 school hours per week and three long days with seven school hours each. According to the legal regulations, it is possible to supplement the all-day school with extracurricular care. The district would like to establish this so-called mixed model at all SBBZs in consultation with the school principals.
Due to existing regulatory and information gaps, it will not be possible to start all-day care at all SBBZs in the district until the 2027/2028 school year at the earliest. As the legal entitlement will apply to all children in the first grade of the SBBZ in the 2026/2027 school year, the following interim solution will be implemented: For the 2026/2027 school year, only one SBBZ supported by the district, the Schule am Favoritepark in Ludwigsburg, will set up a childcare service for children in the first grade as supplementary and fee-based extracurricular care. The pilot school can be used to gather information about the needs of families as well as the pedagogical orientation and design of the childcare offer. From the 2026/2027 school year, the district will thus have a centralized offer for all-day care. Independent providers are to be recruited to implement the service. If no cooperation with an independent provider comes about, the district will have to hire its own childcare staff.
Administration expects that around ten percent will initially use the service
For the first school year 2026/2027, the district administration expects around ten percent of first-grade children to use the service. In the medium term, it assumes that 20 percent of pupils at SBBZs sponsored by the district will require all-day care.
For the 2026/2027 school year, the district administration estimates the costs at around 84,000 euros, for the 2027/2028 school year at around 125,000 euros and for the 2028/2029 school year at around 187,000 euros. The costs are to be financed with the operating cost funding announced by the federal government, with the state grants for flexible afternoon care services, which are currently limited until the end of 2026, and with parental contributions that can be levied for extracurricular care.
