2017 Volume 80 Issue 5 Pages 627-630
The purpose of this study is to grasp the current state of child care support services utilizing the urban parks across our country, and to clarify the relationship between the types of service factoring data about the provided service ("Characteristics of parks", "Implementing entity of projects", "Effects of providing service"). In this study, first, we carried out a questionnaire survey to 1,035 local governments (47 Prefectures, 790 cities, 23 wards of Tokyo, and 175 administrative divisions of major cities). Then we conducted the aggregate and analysis of the data obtained as results of the questionnaire survey. Results are as follows: 1) 18% of local governments provide child care support services in urban parks. Furthermore 30% of local governments hope to provide child care support services in urban parks in the future. 2) Various services are provided in urban parks. For example, "Adventure playgrounds", "Services promoting the exchanges between the families", "Various experience events", "Childcare services" are cited. 3) Each service has different factoring data about the provided service.
