Public youth welfare organisations should find it easier to fulfil the requirement for all-day care. This is the aim of the federal government's draft law „to strengthen all-day youth work“, which the Committee on Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth has now adopted in a slightly amended version (Drs. 21/3193). Until now, the statutory provision (Section 24 (4) SGB VIII, new version), which comes into force on 1 August 2026, stipulated that only services that are under school supervision fulfil the legal requirement. In particular, this included (open) all-day schools and/or day facilities with an existing operating licence in accordance with Section 45 SGB VIII.

However, the public youth welfare organisations were faced with the almost unmanageable task of ensuring uninterrupted care during the school holidays as part of their overall and guarantee responsibility. However, as the need for childcare could not have been met by day care centres alone, the legislator amended the provision in Book VIII of the Social Code to allow local authorities to close this care gap in future by offering youth work in accordance with Section 11 Book VIII of the Social Code.