Bedingungslose Kinder- und Jugendhilfe

Child and youth welfare is regarded as a public infrastructure for upbringing, education and care. Nevertheless, the utilisation of educational assistance within the framework of child and youth welfare is preceded by the identification of an educational need. Accordingly, a diagnosis of deficits in parental upbringing, education and care is often the starting point for assistance, which often has a stigmatising effect. This issue of the journal focuses on the prospects of “unconditional child and youth welfare”, which is intended to examine the possibilities of broad and low-threshold access to educational assistance, but also to look at the structures of child and youth welfare in general.