The purpose of this study was to examine Satisfaction with comprehensive child care services and service effectiveness depending on social worker"s roles in child care centers.
Regarding a study method, child care service was investigated aiming at lo...
The purpose of this study was to examine Satisfaction with comprehensive child care services and service effectiveness depending on social worker"s roles in child care centers.
Regarding a study method, child care service was investigated aiming at low-income parents in child care centers where social workers carry out comprehensive child care service as their proper job and child care centers without social workers.
The results of this study are summed up as the following: First, with regard to comprehensive child care service, low-income parents in child care centers with social workers showed high satisfaction with health service, nutrition service, emotional service, information and referral service, and community linkage service except for extra educational activity service. Second, as for social workers working in child care centers for social welfare service, the necessity of social workers was high. Third, social worker"s roles on child care centers put importance on children such as problems about children"s adjustment and consultation, and connection with child support, so that recognition of social worker"s role for family and community service was insufficient.
From the results of this study suggest that employment of social worker should be carried out in child care centers in order to improve quality of child care service. In addition, recognition of social worker"s roles along with contents of comprehensive child care services in a child care centers should be conducted through education in child care information center and education for child care teachers so that child care services may contribute to family and community as well as children. Items of comprehensive child care services for children, family and community must be added in items of assessment accreditation system of child care centers.