Family support and childcare

Information related to the topics "Family support and childcare":

Maternity protection

• Information about maternity protection and coronavirus:
  https://www.stmas.bayern.de/coronavirus-info/corona-mutterschutz.php

• Maternity protection, maternity benefits, reduced working hours, financial need, support hotlines:
  https://www.bmfsfj.de/bmfsfj/themen/corona-pandemie/hilfen-fuer-schwangere-und-stillende-154070

Childcare

• Current information from the Bavarian State Ministry of Family, Labour, and Social Affairs (StMAS) about childcare:
  https://www.stmas.bayern.de/coronavirus-info/corona-kindertagesbetreuung.php#Download

• Days off to care for children who are ill (“Kinderkrankentage”) and sickness allowance for children who are ill (“Kinderkrankengeld”):
  https://www.bmfsfj.de/bmfsfj/themen/corona-pandemie/kinderbetreuung-bei-schul-und-kitaschliessungen/faq-kinderkrankentage-kinderkrankengeld/fragen-und-antworten-zu-kinderkrankentagen-und-zum-kinderkrankengeld-164976

• Information about vacation and leave for families, childcare, COVID vaccinations for children and youth, assistance for single-parents, etc.:
  https://www.bmfsfj.de/bmfsfj/themen/corona-pandemie

• Hygiene recommendations for parents caring for multiple children: 
  https://www.stmas.bayern.de/imperia/md/content/stmas/stmas_inet/empfehlungen_gegenseitige_betreuung_von_kindern_nachbarschaftshilfe.pdf

• Tips for home office with children from the pme-Familienservice: https://www.familienservice.de/-/home-office-mit-kindern-9-tipps-fur-mentale-stabilitat

Suggestions for childcare at home: 

• Suggestions for at home, media tips, explanation of COVID for children:  https://www.nuernberg.de/internet/stadtportal/informationen_fuer_familien.html

• 101 ideas for various age groups can be found at Betreut.de

• Reading tips at  https://www.stiftunglesen.de/. 

• Other sensible tips for activities: 
  https://www.elternimnetz.de/familie/krise/kinder-sinnvoll-beschaeftigen.php

• More tips for the time spent at home:
  https://www.bildungsserver.de/Kinderbetreuung-in-der-Corona-Krise-12757-de.html#Tipps_fuer_die_Zeit_zu_Hause 

• Tips for school children:
  https://www.bildung-forschung.digital/de/alle-mint-angebote-eltern-und-lehrer-aufgepasst-2916.html

• The “Wortwuselwelt” is an interactive lyric website that has recently been awarded the Grimme Online Prize in the category Culture and Entertainment. It provides children and adolescents an audiovisual music programme. Sounds can be combined, poems read aloud and discovered: http://www.wortwusel.net/index.html

• Kinder-Ministerium, children’s rights: https://www.kinder-ministerium.de/deine-rechte

• Bündnis für Familie of the city of Nuremberg blog: https://familienblog.nuernberg.de/