Insufficient Child Care Facilities in Austria

Politics ♦ Published: November 22, 2011; 20:00 ♦ (Vindobona)

Increase of childcare rates, but supply of childcare facilities still insufficient for 12% of all persons with childcare responsibilities

Insufficient Child Care Facilities in Austria / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Pferdeliebe [CC BY-SA 4.0]

In Austria, 1 700 000 persons aged 15 to 64 were taking care of children under the age of 15 in 2010. 12.0% (208 700) of all persons with childcare responsibilities reported problems with the childcare services (women: 155 000; men: 53 700). The Barcelona childcare target to provide childcare by 2010 to at least 90% of children between three and five years was achieved (90.7%). The…