Narumi Tsunashima
According to a October 5th article on 6 pages in Asahi Shinbun, the number of children waiting to get into publicly certified nursery schools decreases for the first time in four year. It is 25,556 children. This total is less 719 children than the previous year.
Actually but, the standard is still high. The number of two income family may become increase because of current depression. The article said it is unclear to improve the child care environment.
This graph shows the transition of the number of waiting child.
from asahi.com on October 5th
NHK TV news 845 on October 4, 2011 said many local governments establish new day-care center to solve the waiting child problem. In spite of such treatment, the waiting child has not decreased drastically.
NHK focuses on the problem of lack of the number of child care person. According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the average salary of child care person is 217,500 yen a month. This amount is lower over ten thousand than the average salary of all type of job.
NHK news web on October 4th touched the future of child care person problem. 6years later, Japan will be short of 74,000 hands of child care person.
Akiko Oishi who is a professor in Chiba university made a comment that to solve this problem, the nation have to improve child care person’s salary and treatment.
Please watch this video from youtube, it is TV news about waiting child on TBS. If you watch this video, you will understand this problem easily.
This article is good news!
ReplyDeleteAlthough there are still many problems, but according to youtube, Japanese day care system gets better and better.
On the other hand, this article says day-care center dosen`t contribute to decreasing the number of children who wait to get into publicly certified nursery schools, and therefore, we should think of what measure is good for this problem.
Masashi Yamada
Surely, It is good for Japan that the number of children waiting to get into publicly certified nursery schools decreased. But, we have trouble of child care for the time being. For Japan, it is natural that both parents have full time jobs and they have a nuclear family. With building additional publicly certified nursery schools, we need to reexamine the labor for the nuclear families.
ReplyDeleteKako Furukawa
This issue is argued for long and it is very difficult problem. This news is good for them. However, there are so many walls to solve this issue. Economic is in recession and more parents will go work outside so that they have to put children in nursery schools. I hope government would help to solve the issue.
ReplyDeleteShuhei Wada
Why do you think the number of waiting children has decreased? And why should there be any waiting children at all? Shouldn't there be a place in a nursery school for every child that needs childcare? It is hard for me to understand that. In any case, conditions for nursery school workers need to be improved or the country will be in even bigger trouble.
ReplyDeleteCould you suggest an action plan?
Ms. MacGregor