Abstract
The purpose of this study was to clarify the requirements to improve urgent child accommo date care by evaluating actual conditions at night care nursery. 32 caregivers who used child accommodate care were interviewed, representatives of 13 nursery performed accommodate care were asked to answer questionnaire, and 8 staffs were asked to attend a focus group interview. The results showed eight requirements to improve urgent child accommod ate care in nursery as follows ; 1) improvement of quality of care, 2) establishment of suitable environment for accommodate care, 3) support for caregivers to have chance to get better job, 4) expanding adequacy and appropriateness for care professionals, 5) exchanging care information among nurseries, 7) expanding availability for all children, 8) promoting social awareness to support for child caring. Further research must be done to establish more effective services for urgent child accom modate care in nursery.
