This research is achieved on the purpose to grasp the parents' request about child-care of low-income family and to grope the direction of child-care policy to offer more efficient child-care service to low-income family.
To achieve these purposes, af...
This research is achieved on the purpose to grasp the parents' request about child-care of low-income family and to grope the direction of child-care policy to offer more efficient child-care service to low-income family.
To achieve these purposes, after grasping the actual condition with the priority researches and examining literature, and grasping the child care service requests of low-income family through the questionnaires, I tried to draw the direction of child care policy.
The target of the questionnaires was the parents in the provided low-income families by law and the second high class families whose children are going to the child care center addressed in In-Cheon si. The questionnaires used to final analysing materials were 311 copies. The questionnaire is organized in the questions about the respondents' general characteristics, the request and satisfaction measure about the child-care center, the request and satisfaction measure about the child-care programme, the request about the child-care time and the fee, the request about the child-care support policy and etc. Collected materials are analysed through the frequency number, t-verification, unitary dispersion analysis and Scheffe post censorship attended by the research questions.
The principal results through this research are below :
The first is, that the respondents are not satisfied with the Child-care center, and the satisfaction measure was ordered from highest to lowest in the order of , the national public child-care center, corporation child-care center, household child-care center, private child-care center, the national public child-care center was the highest. The most important point to choose the child-care center was the time they are taking care of children and the quality of meal and snack. The second is, that the result of the difference between the request and the satisfaction about the child-care programme shows that the present child-care centers are doing the functions of caring and educating but they are unprepared for the inclusive child-care services, such as, emotional support service, local society communication service, sanitary service, informational and request service. Also, it shows that the parents are requesting even the function of the inclusive child-care services, but not just the function of caring and educating. The third is, that result about the request of child-care hours, 62.1% of them are using the center from morning to night, and they are strongly requesting the variety child-care hours like an extensional hour child-care, a limited time child-care, 24 hours child-care and a holiday child-care. Now days, the child-care fee of the government supporting unit cost 100% is supported but 18.3% of them answered that they have to pay the difference if they go to the private and household child-care center. Also, the field studying fee, educating special ability fee, meal and snack fee, and teaching materials fee are charged greatly to low-income families and 34.4% of them want the government supports all of the reasonable child-care fee without compensation.
The fourth is, that the measure of the satisfaction about child-care support policy of government was 2.76, most of them answered they are dissatisfied, and the measure about the necessity about the child-care policy for low-income families, was 4.29, the request about child-care support policy was high. Especially, the request about the variety child-care center hours, such as, the child-care expense support, national-public child-care center expansion, limited hour, extension hour, 24 hours, and etc. was high.
The belows are the suggested political direction which based on the result of research :
Firstly, the child-care fee support is necessary through the expansion of child-care financial support. Secondly, the devices about valuation certification system support, meal and snack management duty support, strengthening of child-care government official supervisor through the expansion of child-care public service personnel, to solve the disparity with child-care center, and to improve the quality. Fourthly, for improving quality of child-care programme and for developing and revitalizing the inclusive child-care programme, the arrangement duty of social welfare service have to be put in operation. Fifthly, to offer enough information, the local model development for parents' education the revitalization and child-care support have to be supplied. Sixthly, As in the side of prevention, the revitalization of after-school child-care center and the administrational system servicing have to be achieved.
This research analyzed the request about chid-care service for low-income families through the questionnaires, suggested political proposal for improvement of current system and this research is meaningful at the point of becoming basis materials to manage the substantial plan which can improve the utility factor of current child-care support system for low-income families through the result of this research.