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Social Work Ensuring Child Protection

Kinderschutz gewährleistende Sozialarbeit
Machine translation of the German page, 2026-09-15. The German original is binding.
The youth welfare offices (Jugendämter) and the Child Protection Hotline (Hotline Kinderschutz) receive reports about possible risks to the welfare of children and young people and check them without delay. They arrange the necessary protection and initiate assistance for the children and young people affected. The youth welfare offices can be reached from Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., at their respective dial-in numbers, generally using extension 5555. The Child Protection Hotline can be reached around the clock, including on weekends, at telephone number: 61 00 66.

Book an appointment

Book an appointment (service.berlin.de)

Requirements

• No requirements.

Documents you need

• No documents are required.

Fees

none

Legal basis

• § 8a Sozialgesetzbuch Achtes Buch -SGB VIII-

Further information

• Information from the Senatsverwaltung für Bildung, Jugend und Familie (Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family) on child protection www.berlin.de/sen/jugend/familie-und-kinder/kinderschutz/ • Information from the Berliner Notdienst Kinderschutz (Berlin Emergency Child Protection Service) www.berliner-notdienst-kinderschutz.de/index.html

Who is responsible

The locally responsible authority is the Jugendamt (youth welfare office) of the district in which the child/young person lives with a parent who has custody.

Responsible for you

Choose a location; the appointment itself is booked on the original page.

Original

German original

Service number 328117 · same path as the original: service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/328117/