Welcome to the parents' portal of the city of Essen

 

Dear parents,

with the LITTLE BIRD parent portal, you can register your child quickly and easily with up to 7 facilities per daycare year. After a rejection, you can submit a new place request. Reservations can also be made via the daycare center, the professional association and the Familienpunkt.

If possible, please only create one parent account at a time and contact support if you have any access problems.

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All entries marked with an * are mandatory. By entering a postal code, you can narrow down your results further or determine them more precisely.

More information

Please note that LITTLE BIRD is purely a reservation system and your place request does not replace a personal interview at the daycare center or with the childminder. Places are still allocated via the daycare centers and professional childcare associations. If you have any queries about the status of your place request, please always contact the daycare center or the responsible child day care specialist directly.

Each daycare year begins on August 1 and ends on July 31 of the following year. The allocation of places for August 1st usually starts on March 1st. Please be patient if you do not receive immediate feedback on this date. If places become available in the course of a daycare year, they will also be allocated during the year.

The range of childcare facilities in Essen is constantly being expanded. However, the visibility of newly planned daycare centers is delayed for various reasons. Therefore, please be patient if the new facility you are looking for is not yet displayed in the parents' portal. You can see in which districts daycare centers are currently planned and whether they are already activated for reservations in LITTLE BIRD here >> Planning new daycare centers in Essen. If in doubt, please contact the responsible institution.

Do you have any questions about the timetable for allocating places? Then you can find more information here >> Procedure

 

Click here for step-by-step instructions in several languages:

>> Portal instructions - Arabic
>> Portal instructions - English
>> Portal instructions - French
>> Portal instructions - German
>> Portal instructions - Persian
>> Portal instructions - Polish 
>> Portal instructions - Portuguese
>> Portal instructions - Romanian
>> Portal instructions - Russian
>> Portal instructions - Spanish
>> Portal instructions - Turkish
>> Portal instructions - Ukrainian

 

Help and support:

City of Essen Family Centre
Telephone: +49 201 88 51777 
Fax: +49 201 88 51077
E-mail: familienpunkt@essen.de
Internet: www.essen.de/familienpunkt

Please note that Familienpunkt not only offers a telephone service, but also advises families on site. Therefore, it is not always possible to reach us by telephone. You are also welcome to contact us by e-mail.

Child day care in Essen

You can also use the convenient online registration service for child day care using the LITTLE BIRD parent's portal. Your enquiry will be passed onto the responsible professional association, who will arrange contact to the childminder and will be pleased to advise you on all questions regarding child day care.

Not all childminders are visible to you in the LITTLE BIRD parent portal. Many offer day care in their own homes and want to protect their privacy. The specialist advisors are informed about the capacity of all childminders and will be happy to help you.

You will find the contact partners at the professional associations in the individual childminder’s profile.

Nannies

Nannies are childminders who take care of children in their parents‘ home. Registration for nannies is not undertaken via LITTLE BIRD, as this kind of care is an exceptional case. Please contact the corresponding association for mediation.

You will find more information on the subject of child day care and the professional associations on the Internet at >> KTP

 

Important notes

A KiBe no. is always required to submit a place request. You can find more information here >> Kinderbetreuungsnummer (KiBe-Nr.)

In the event of a technical error, please inform Support. Describe the problem in as much detail as possible and add screenshots if necessary.

If a new street or house number cannot yet be selected, please also inform us so that we can add it.

The data protection regulation (DSGVO)  came into force on 25.05.2018. You can find information on this here >> notes on data protection

Please inform Familienpunkt if your personal details change. We expressly point out that the e-mail address should remain unchanged during the search for childcare. This is the only way you can be contacted by the daycare centers.

Please also check the status of your space requests regularly and inform us if there are any discrepancies.