Issues on the Policy of Expanding National Childcare Centers to Reinforce the Public Interest of Childcare

The mediating effect of self-efficacy in the relationship between communication skills and practices of preventing infectious diseases among daycare center teachers in South Korea

“…The government provides childcare center teachers with guidelines for each stage of the spread of infectious diseases to lead a stable response to infectious diseases [11,26,27]. Since 2006, when transmission of an infectious disease occurs in a childcare facility, the situation has been entered into an integrated information system [7,11]. Daycare teachers play an important role in maintaining and promoting the health of infants and young children through effective communication skills [11,13].…”

“…Starting in 2013, free education for children aged 0~5 was introduced [4], and the number of childcare facilities increased from only 1,919 in 1990 to 37,371 in 2019 [5]. In recent years, interest in the quality of child safety and health management is increasing, instead of a focus on increasing the quantity of childcare facilities and simple child-rearing [6,7].…”

“Others' children are expendable.” Comparing childcare sector with health and long‐term sectors in Taiwan

“…Nevertheless, in Taipei City, New Taipei City and Taichung City—the metro areas in Taiwan with higher female employment rates—the need for non‐parental childcare is much more than in other places. The policy decision makers of the local governments of these cities have considered social investment, aiming to increase the female employment rate through public childcare policy to reduce childcare responsibility (Chang, 2017). Among the prevalent market‐oriented thinking and subsidies, these cities are the few that implement public childcare programmes.…”