Creating a Violence Protection Concept in the Day-Care Centre – Section 45 SGB VIII

Violence protection concept for day-care centres under Section 45 SGB VIII: put risk analysis, code of conduct, participation, complaints, staffing and intervention plan into practice.

Online self-study course for day-care centre managers, provider organisations and early years teams in day-care centres for children – 8 modules, approx. 8 hours, at your own pace, with confirmation of participation after working through all modules. Sources in APA 7, legal position as at September 2026.

The modules:

Violence, power and the protection mandate: fundamentals for the day-care centre
Legal framework: Section 45 SGB VIII, operating licence and reporting duties
Carrying out a participatory risk and potential analysis
Code of conduct, stance and prevention in everyday day-care centre life
Shaping participation and complaints for children and parents
Staffing responsibility: selection, criminal record extract and induction
Intervention plan: suspicion, transgressions among children, rehabilitation
Introduction, evaluation and further development of the protection concept

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Self-study without supervision, assignments or evaluation of learning progress by instructors; the voluntary self-reflection is for your own orientation only. Your confirmation of participation becomes available once you have marked all modules as done yourself.

What you will learn

You can explain why every day-care centre needs a violence protection concept and how it relates to the child’s right to a non-violent upbringing.

You can explain why day-care centres need an operating licence and what role the violence protection concept plays in granting it.

You can define the concept of risk and potential analysis and explain its function as the basis of the whole violence protection concept.

You can distinguish the terms stance, mission statement and code of conduct from one another and explain their function in the violence protection concept.

You can define participation, self-representation and complaints in professional terms and distinguish between them.

You can describe staff responsibility as a distinct building block of a violence protection concept and explain why it extends beyond recruitment.

You can explain what an intervention plan is, why it must be part of the violence protection concept as a binding procedure, and how it differs from prevention and reappraisal.

You can explain why Section 45(2) sentence 2 no. 4 of Book VIII of the German Social Code (SGB VIII) requires not only the development but expressly also the application and review of a violence protection concept.

Self-study at your own pace

Confirmation of participation after working through all modules

Creating a Violence Protection Concept in the Day-Care Centre – Section 45 SGB VIII

Creating a Violence Protection Concept in the Day-Care Centre – Section 45 SGB VIII

What you will learn

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