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Pedagogy

Top marks for our pme Lernwelten

The annual parent survey conducted at our daycare centers and after-school care facilities is an important component of Familienservice quality management system, alongside parent-teacher meetings, parent-teacher conferences, and our complaint management process. Approximately 1,500 families participated in the 2026 “Lernwelten” parent survey.

The most important results

  • 97 percent of parents said their child enjoys attending the facility.
  • 95.5 percent feel comfortable dropping their children off at the facility.
  • 96.3 percent find the atmosphere of the facility friendly and welcoming.
  • 94 percent said that the teachers respond to their child's needs and interests.
  • For 96.8 percent of respondents, the facility’s hours of operation meet their needs.

What the parents say

In addition to selecting from a list of options, parents had the opportunity to provide open-ended feedback. Among other things, they were asked what they childcare center liked about the childcare center . The friendliness and openness of the childcare staff were mentioned most frequently, along with the favorable staff-to-child ratio and the long hours of operation. Here is a selection of the feedback:

“You can really feel the love for the job.” Jasmin Mundry

“I really like the concept, how well everything is organized and put together, and most of all the amazing staff who make all the magic happen.” 

“The rapport between the teacher, the child, and the parents is perfect.” Steffen Räpppold

“My child is warmly welcomed every day and treated as an individual.”

“100% reliability in care.” 

“The digital app, the friendly atmosphere, the kind teachers.”

“We were particularly impressed by the staff’s warm interaction with the children, as well as the cleanliness and the healthy meals.” Jovana Dokic

“Excellent staff-to-child ratio; children receive individualized support.” Simon Weinman

 

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Every feedback is received

We are delighted that so many families took part in the parent survey. This gives us important information about the areas in which parents are satisfied and where there is room for improvement. We use a defined process to ensure that all feedback is received by the respective childcare center : After the evaluation, the survey team sends the results to the site managers, the specialist advisors and the facility managers. The on-site specialist advisory team discusses the results with the managers, the teams then evaluate them and develop possible improvements if there was critical feedback.

zero pme and Generation Ü: From retirement to working life

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Leadership & HR

pme and Generation Ü: From retirement to working life

By 2030, over eight million people will be of working age. Only around 5.5 million workers will join the labor market. Many companies are already feeling the effects of this huge skills gap. In order to anticipate this development at an early stage, the pme Familienservice Group is deliberately focusing on new ways of recruiting through a partnership with the "Generation Ü" job agency.

For some time now, pme Familienservice has been committed to keeping team members in employment - at their own request - after they retire. At the beginning of March, pme Familienservice launched a partnership with the job placement agency "Generation Ü", which helps to recruit people with extensive work experience. In future, the focus will be on more than 90 childcare and educational institutions across Germany.

Silver worker: From retirement to working life

At the 30 pme locations throughout Germany, Generation Ü will search for and place suitable "Üs" as a job placement service for retirement. Üs are women and men, generally between their late 50s and early 70s, who want to remain active towards the end of their working life or in retirement.

"Through the partnership with Generation Ü, pme Familienservice wants to focus even more strongly than before on the experience and motivation of older generations. This is an important component of our diversity strategy and should also help to counter the increasing shortage of skilled workers," says Alexa Ahmad, CEO of the pme Familienservice Group.

Who is Generation Ü?

Ü founder and former State Secretary Christian Ege says: "Generation Ü brings companies and Üs into contact and organizes the cooperation, hand-mediated and with an internal IT platform in which over 1200 Üs are currently registered".

Generation Ü offers SMEs and public employers in particular many advantages and credibility in the search, placement and recruitment of skilled workers over 55. Whether in the office, childcare, classroom, accounting, as a driver, in sales, production, technology or a doctor's surgery: the Üs fulfill many tasks and important projects reliably, with knowledge, drive and many years of experience in a wide variety of professions and areas. Just in a slightly different way than in conventional working life.