Yes, that's the way it's intended. This optimizes the coordination among the kindergartens and increases the chance of finding a kindergarten place for one of your preferred kindergartens.
No. The facilities receive your reservation automatically via Kita Place.
No, this cannot be guaranteed. Kita Place is a pre-registration system, not a kindergarten assignment system. With the pre-registration, your child will be placed on the waiting list of the kindergartens you've selected. This is the basis for the annual assignment of the available kindergarten places. This is done by the kindergartens/their sponsors in accordance with the statutory provisions and the guidelines of the respective organisations.
The childcare places in the City of Hattingen are primarily available to families who live there. If you don't live in Hattingen at the time of pre-registration yet but intend to move there, you can indicate this in the pre-registration form.
Please contact the call centre of the City of Hattingen by phone (☎ 02324 204-4201) or by e-mail (kitaportal@hattingen.de).
All kindergartens and their sponsors with whom you have pre-registered and the persons responsible at the youth welfare office.
Kita Place is the central pre-registration system for the City of Hattingen, to which all of Hattingen's kindergartens are connected. It is the only way to pre-register a child for a place in a kindergarten in Hattingen.
With the facility which provided you with the care offer.
You can select up to three kindergartens while pre-registering. It's recommended that you visit your preferred kindergartens to find out about the pedagogical concept before pre-registering.
After registering your account, you can log in at any time using your e-mail address and the password you have chosen in order to view the pre-registrations you have entered or to change data. During the ongoing process of place allocation (which usually runs from December to April), you may receive one or more offers from your preferred kindergartens, one of which you can accept.
No. All of the kindergartens you have selected consider your pre-registration to be of equal value, so it may happen that you receive several childcare offers, but you can only choose one of them. As soon as you have concluded a contract with a kindergarten, all other offers lose their validity.
The care types "younger than 3 years" and "3 years or older" are automatically determined on the basis of the child's date of birth. For children who turn three by October 31st, the care type "3 years or older" is automatically chosen.