Partial refund of the parent contribution if childcare is canceled for more than 30 days a year due to lack of staff: This is what Bonn father Sören Wallrodt asks the city in a citizen’s appeal. The campaign alliance “Parents on the Border” supports it, but initiator Ellen Ostermann sees the appeal as only a first step to compensate for the problems caused by emergency care: “We actually support the complete abolition of the parent contribution.”