Social Authority

Report staffing changes at a childcare facility

If you wish to make a change in personnel in a child day care facility or for all-day education and care at schools (GBS), you must report this immediately after starting employment.

Detailed description

As the operator of a day care facility or facility for all-day education and care (GBS) at schools, you must report any changes in personnel to the responsible authority. The reporting requirement applies to all persons who work with or on children within your facility. The following events are counted as changes in personnel:

  • Entry into employment

  • Leaving an employment relationship

  • Change of workplace within the facility

  • Continued employment as a parent after completing training

  • Starting vocational training as a child care worker

  • Hiring of lateral entrants with the professional or academic qualifications defined in the positive list and the key points paper “Key points for a temporary opening of the daycare professional field for an additional group of staff”. For example:
    • University graduates with a degree in education
    • Speech therapists with further qualification in pedagogy
  • Employment with a special permit

 

Information

Prerequisites

  • As the operator, you have an operating license for the facility.
  • There has been a personnel change

Documents required

No

Please note

There are no special features

Deadlines

There is an obligation to report immediately. As soon as the new employee has started work, you must report.

Procedure

You can submit the report in writing or using the online service. The procedures differ in determining responsibility.

Written procedure:

  • You prepare a written notification of the personnel change in your facility.

  • Then send your notification by post to the responsible authority.

  • The responsible authority will carry out a formal review upon receipt. If formal errors or missing documents are found, they will contact you and ask you to make corrections.

  • You must make the correction and submit an updated report.

  • After receipt of the update, the competent authority carries out an assessment procedure in which the professional suitability and reliability of the person to be hired are checked.

  • If the test is positive, the personnel change will be confirmed.

  • If the test is negative, the responsible authority will contact you and explain how employment is still possible. For example, the person may need to obtain additional qualifications.

Online process:

  • You create a written report in the online service.

  • The online service carries out an automatic determination of responsibility.

  • Once created, the notification is automatically forwarded to the responsible authority.

  • The remaining procedural steps correspond to the written procedure.

Processing time

case-by-case

Fees

No

Legal remedies

No legal remedy is provided.

Legal basis

§ 47 Social Code – Book Eight (SGB VIII)


www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sgb_8/__47.html


State framework agreement for child care in day care facilities


www.hamburg.de/contentblob/1830150/b8337d215892d2861e954709450630ca/data/landesrahmenvertrag-neu.pdf


State framework agreement for all-day education and care at schools in cooperation with child and youth welfare providers


www.hamburg.de/contentblob/3293528/8ad7a239ecd37066d4ffc180ba2e6537/data/gbs-landesrahmenvertrag.pdf


Educational staff in daycare centres and all-day education and care at schools (positive list)


www.hamburg.de/contentblob/14929010/f058756fb7fcc9ccc5f090d97f36a748/data/positivliste-040121.pdf


Key points for a temporary opening of the daycare professional field for an additional group of staff (key points paper)


www.hamburg.de/contentblob/11545784/0d4ee20a65a72312f763a3e1a6daab51/data/beschluss-vertragskommission-kita-2018-04-18.pdf

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Last updated: 15.02.2026