The Federation, the Länder and the local authorities in child and youth services (b)

	Local authorities	Länder	Federation
Authority	Youth welfare offices in all counties and towns that are administrative districts in their own right	16 youth ministries of the Länder (federal states) and youth offices of the Länder	Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
Basics	Medium-term child and youth services plans	Implementing acts to Social Code Book 8	Social Code Book 8 Child and Youth Services Act
Instruments	Planning and funding responsibility in the context of local self-government	Initiation, promotion, further development of public-sector and non-statutory child and youth services	Nationwide initiation, models and promotion
Funding and reporting	Local and regional facilities and offerings run by public-sector and non-statutory bodies	Child and Youth Plans of the Länder Child and Youth Reports of the Länder	Child and Youth Plan of the Federation (KJP) Child and Youth Report

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