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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2022.13.02.293

A Study on Improving Financial Support of Grouphome for Children  

Cho, Soo-Min (Department of Social Welfare, Halla University)
Kim, Jeong-Hwa (Department of Social Welfare, Korea national university of Welfare)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.13, no.2, 2022 , pp. 293-302 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify the problems and improvement plans of grouphome management, by analyzing the sizes and items of children grouphome budgets of national and local governments. Major results of this study were as follows. First, the most crucial issue regarding labor costs within child grouphome budget, was that there was a significant difference in conditions between workers in similar institutions and regions. Small-sized institutions operated under a system that inevitably required excessive workload for workers, leading to exhaustion. Second, the support of operation expenses was absolutely insufficient to meet the general and special needs of children, and the relative differences between facilities of the same type were also identified. Third, children grouphome had limitations in stable business planing and implementation due to the absence of business expense support. Through this analysis, this paper discussed appropriate budget supporting measures regarding children grouphome, in order to ensure equal protection of grouphome children.
Keywords
Out-of-homecare children; Children grouphome; Social welfare budget; Improving of work condition; Financial support;
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