Berlin is making plans 20 new youngsters’s and adolescents leisure centers

In Berlin, 20 new youngsters’s and youth entertainment facilities are being planned. Six present offers also are to be accelerated this yr and within the coming years. This emerges from a response from the training administration to a parliamentary question by the Greens MP Klara Schedlich, which is to be had to the Tagesspiegel.

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Six of the new centers will be in Treptow-Köpenick, three each in Neukölln and Reinickendorf, and  in Tempelhof-Schöneberg. Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Pankow, Spandau, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Marzahn-Hellersdorf and Lichtenberg will every have a brand new center.

These gives for kids and young humans aren't an immediate reaction to the violence perpetrated by young people towards emergency services for the duration of the beyond New Year’s Eve in Berlin. Following the New Year’s Eve riots, the then governing mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD) invited to two summits in opposition to teens violence, at which a catalog of measures was advanced.

However, the strengthening of toddler and youngsters work agreed therein has now not but been applied. Exactly which new gives can be financed is currently the difficulty of budgetary deliberations. The planning of the brand new projects indexed had already been pushed ahead.

It is unhappy that there had been many guarantees but the investment is doubtful till now.

Green MP Klara Schedlich on the planned measures in opposition to kids violence

“It’s unhappy that there were many guarantees, however the financing is doubtful to this point,” Schedlich told the Tagesspiegel. Two summits might now not be sufficient to bolster nationwide teens work. Schedlich, who is teens coverage spokeswoman for her institution, is thrilled about the deliberate new facilities.

However, she requires a “balanced distribution” throughout all districts for destiny new youngsters gives. It should also turn out to be obligatory for construction projects to consist of youngsters’s and children enjoyment centers in the making plans. “Similar to the requirement for day care facilities and schools,” stated Schedlich. Where younger humans are not given any area, they could surely take the gap – and that could lead to conflicts.

401 centers during Berlin

According to the schooling administration, there are a complete of 401 kids’s and teens entertainment facilities in Berlin. It is interesting: According to the records, simplest five of the houses deal explicitly with violence prevention. Instead, the most regularly referred to topic is “children tradition and artistic creativity”.

In the beyond ten years, 17 centers have needed to near. “In unique, great renovations/conversions had been vital and there had been modifications in possession,” writes the Senate Department. As a rule, however, alternative places have been made available to the children, kids and young adults.

Neukölln turned into toughest hit with the aid of the closures, with six facilities reportedly having to close. Neukölln changed into specifically in awareness across the riots on New Year’s Eve. There are presently 31 leisure golf equipment for kids and younger human beings in the district, 14 of which might be public and 17 private.

Unequal distribution throughout the districts

The existing centers are inconsistently dispensed across Berlin: Most youngsters’s and children centers are in Mitte, Pankow and Lichtenberg with forty eight, 47 and forty three homes. There are fewer in the west: 19 in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and 21 in Steglitz-Zehlendorf.

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Overall, the full variety of children’s and teenagers leisure facilities in Berlin has changed only slightly in recent years. As a query with the aid of the Tagesspiegel confirmed, the range between 2011 and 2023 constantly fluctuated between 393 and 407. One issue is sure: the gives do no longer absolutely cowl the call for. As may be visible from a response from the schooling administration to a parliamentary query from May, a need for 62,969 locations for the entire town turned into final determined on the end of 2021.

This is frequently calculated based totally at the improvement of the variety of population among young people among the ages of 6 and 26. At that point there have been round 16,000 locations lacking. The 20 newly deliberate clubs will probably be capable of compensate for as a minimum part of this.