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The Status and Challenges of Child Care Policy

보육정책의 실태와 과제

  • 노명숙 (전주비전대학교 아동복지과)
  • Received : 2012.11.19
  • Accepted : 2012.12.06
  • Published : 2012.12.31

Abstract

The purposes of this study are to analyze the status of Child Care Policy, to discover the problems faced by child care policy and to provide better Child Care policies to reorient in the future. The following problems have been identified through the Child Care Policy Analysis of: (1) Due to '0 to 2 years' free Child Care, Dual-earner families was difficult to use Child Care facilities. (2) Low-income families with children over 36 months were excluded from receiving Care allowance. Child Care of publicity is difficult to secure. Because children using Child Care facilities use private type Child Care facilities than the national and public Child Care. Policy proposals to provide better Child Care policies are to increase the number of the national and public Child Care, to pay practical parenting allowance, to increase the number of high quality Infant Daycare Centers, to expand Part-time child care services and to support parent education and counseling program.

본 연구는 문헌조사방법을 통해 보육정책의 현황을 정리하고, 문제점을 파악하여 향후 보육정책의 과제를 제시하는 것이다. 실태 분석을 통해 발견한 보육정책의 문제점은 0~2세 전 계층 무상 보육으로 인해 실수요계층인 맞벌이 가정의 이용이 어려운 점, 양육수당의 지원 대상에서 36개월 이상의 보육시설을 이용하지 않는 저소득층이 제외된 점, 보육시설 이용아동 대부분 국공립이 아닌 민간어린이집을 이용하므로 보육의 공공성 확보가 어려운 점 등이다. 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위해 향후 보육정책에서 국공립어린이집 확충으로 보육의 공공성을 확보하고, 양육수당을 현실화하고, 질 높은 영아전담 어린이집의 수를 늘리고, 시간제 보육서비스를 확대하고, 부모교육 및 상담 프로그램을 지원하는 것이 필요하다.

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