2017 Volume 82 Issue 739 Pages 2267-2275
A lot of children are still waiting list to enter subsidized day-nursery in urban area. To reduce the waiting lists, certified nursery has been performed independently in some municipalities. But new child and child-rearing support system has started from April 2015. Most of certified nurseries operated with the municipality's standard have been forced to change to the national standard. In the previous paper, we examined the results of the survey for certified nursery in Kyoto-city. In this paper, the purpose is to clarify the actual circumstances of the certified day-nurseries in Sendai and Kawaguchi-city sifting to the new child and child-rearing system. As a survey method, we conducted document analysis and visit survey to 22 nurseries in Sendai and Kawaguchi-city.
Some results show as follows:
1) The transition rate to the new system is different in each municipality, reflecting the difference in standards of the certified day-nursery.
2) Because the capacity and area standard are different, differences were found in the way of transition to the new system between Sendai and Kawaguchi.
3) Problems hardly occured in nurseries where the situations before the shift were close to the standards of "small- scale daycare".
4) It was difficult to continue using the building where problems occured in safety standards such as earthquake resistance and refractory standards.
5) In large nurseries transferred to "small-scale daycare", unauthorized nursery and temporary custody are installed utilizing vacant rooms to meet various needs.
