Corporatization of Public Nursery Centers: Building a New Operational Model

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25590134
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Osaka Prefecture University
• Principal Investigator: sekikawa yoshitaka 大阪府立大学, 人間社会システム科学研究科, 教授 (10206625)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 公立保育所の民営化 / 引き継ぎ・共同保育 / 移管後の経営課題

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The corporatization of public nursery centers continues despite the introduction of the Support System for Children and Child-rearing. If local governments demolish public nursery centers to transfer children to private nursery centers, the latter will continue to care for the children transferred. However, while transferring to private nursery　centers, an in-depth explanation should be given to the parents or guardians, and the handover and collaborative childcare should be undertaken with maximum attention being paid to the children, so that the transfer does not cause an unsavory impact on them.In managing the nursery center after the transfer, it is important that the new authority (the private nursery centers) takes on the role of public childcare facilities as a safety net.

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