The Present Condition of Making "Child: Rearing Plan" (Provincial Angel Plan)

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  • 児童育成計画(地方版エンゼルプラン)策定実態と今後の課題
  • ジドウ イクセイ ケイカク チホウバン エンゼル プラン サクテイ ジッタイ ト コンゴ ノ カダイ

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This report is a summary of the results of a survey on 566 municipalities receiving subsidies from the Ministry of Health and Welfare in order to make their own "Child Rearing Plan". This report aims to examine the present procedure for making up the plan and to evaluate how the plan contributes to achieving it's target and providing childcare services. In the 1990's there were fears that in launching a campaign to increase the birthrate, the original purpose of the plan would be lost. Many policies in operation are concerned with supporting the raising of children. The Ministry of Health and Welfare presented the "Basic Direction of Policies to Support Future Child Rearing" (the "Angel plan") in 1994, and this was approved by the Ministers of Education, Labor and Construction. In addition to this, "5-year Projects including Urgency Day Care Measures" was also announced and approved by the three Ministers. These 5 -year projects involved "Day Care Targets of Priority" consisting of 7 childcare services. In order to promote this project, the "Child-Rearing Plan" was started in 1995. Another basic idea of the "Child-Rearing Plan" is that a good child-rearing environment needs to be created not only for those children of working mothers needing day care but also for the children being cared for at home and whose parents are involved in the child-rearing process in general. Making up a "Child-Rearing Plan" on a municipal level was, on the whole, successful, especially with regards to understanding the needs of families with children and establishing mutual relations between some departments relating to children and family matters. However the number of childcare services has yet to reach the number needed to achieve the targets set out in the "Day Care Targets of Priority" project. And also, most of "Child-Rearing Plan" are lacking of the point of view of child protection and support. Nonetheless, it is necessary to make a "Child-Rearing Plan" for minicipalities' policies for children families developing.

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