영유아 보육·교육기관과 아이돌봄서비스의 효율적 연계방안 연구

Abstract

Even though the government provides free child care for children aged 0-5 and supports extended daycare and kindergarten after-school courses for working parents, there still exists a vacuum in child care system. In addition, the vacuum of child care system could be deepening when the daycare centers or kindergartens are closed due to disasters such as COVID-19. This study sought to link Idolbom services in the public sector to resolve the vacuum in child care system for households using daycare centers or kindergartens. The study conducted a survey of 502 households using kindergartens and 1,121 households using daycare centers, and conducted opinion surveys on kindergartens, daycare centers, and Idolbom providers. Above all, the demand for supplementing child care vacuum is divided into niche childcare and emergency childcare. Niche childcare is when there is a need for care outside of statutory operating hours. Urgent childcare can be divided into general situations, such as when a child is sick or when parents work at night, and disaster situations. When asking households using childcare centers or kindergartens on a 5-point scale for the degree of need for Idolbom service linkage, the result was 3.93 points for compulsory closure of institutions due to COVID-19, 3.87 points for parents who are sick, 3.85 points for suddenly having to work overtime at work, usual late for work (after 19:30) with 3.80 points, and those with additional children at 3.80 points. In addition, information necessary to smoothly link childcare services at daycare centers or kindergartens include 'Idolbom support project-related guidebooks', 'Online educational materials', 'Manuals for responding to parental questions such as how to use the service and hot-line toward the official department in charge' and 'Installation of furniture in consultation with child care service providers' were referred as the information necessary to smoothly link child care services with daycare centers or kindergartens. Based on this, as a prerequisite for linking Idolbom services with daycare centers and kindergartens, it was suggested to improve the operation of extended daycare for daycare centers and kindergarten after-school programs and to establish an integrated care support system. As detailed measures, 1) elaboration of service linkage support targets and enhancement of effectiveness, 2) service link-related cooperation system and one-stop care service application system, 3) Idolbom service linkage plan for each type of care vacuum were presented. As detailed tasks for each type of vacuum, the study suggests the improvement of accessibility to part-time Idolbom services, the establishment of a linkage system for general emergency child care, and the establishment of a linkage system for emergency child care in the event of a disaster.