Childcare centers with fewer than 100 children also receive services from the 'Children's Meal Management Support Center'

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Starting this year, even small-scale daycare centers with fewer than 100 children are required to register for the Child Meal Management Support Center services, which is expected to improve the nutrition and hygiene management of children.

According to Gyeonggi Province on the 17th, from this year, small-scale daycare centers with fewer than 100 children can receive support such as the development of meal plans for children’s meals and educational materials for nutrition and meal guidance when they register with the Child Meal Management Support Center for efficient nutritional management.

This measure is in accordance with the "Special Act on Safety Management of Children's Dietary Life" enacted in December last year. Previously, only meal service centers with 100 or more children were required to register with the Child Meal Management Support Center, but starting this year, centers with fewer than 100 children are also mandated to register.

There are a total of 10,136 daycare centers in Gyeonggi Province without nutritionists, of which 9,618 have fewer than 100 children. The province requested these daycare centers to register with the Child Meal Management Support Center by February. Currently, 83 centers remain unregistered.

Jung Gu-won, Director of the Childcare Policy Division of the province, stated, "Until now, we have thoroughly managed daycare meal hygiene and nutrition through evaluation certification systems and parent monitoring group inspection indicators. With this mandatory registration, even small-scale daycare centers without nutritionists are expected to efficiently manage nutrition through the Child Meal Management Support Center."

The Child Meal Management Support Center was established by the government to provide systematic and thorough hygiene and nutrition management support to group meal service centers that provide collective meals to children, such as daycare centers, kindergartens, and local children’s centers. In Gyeonggi Province, there is one center in each of the 31 cities and counties.

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