The number of people working at daycare centres in Germany has surged over the past decade, since the country implemented a legal entitlement to care for young children. Around 702,200 people are working as childcare staff at daycare facilities as of March 1, 2023, according to a report released on Wednesday by Germany’s Federal Statistical Office. That marks an increase of more than 50% since 2013, when there were only 465,000 people working in the sector. Beginning in 2013, German law gave parents the right to day care for children between the ages of 1 and 3 years old. The number of childre…