Gyeongbuk Office of Education Strengthens Meal Management for Small-Scale Kindergartens... Deploys Nutrition Teachers to Manage Meals at Private Kindergartens

Gyeongbuk Office of Education supporting nutrition education at small-scale private kindergartens.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Gwiyeol] The Gyeongbuk Office of Education will assign nutrition teachers to education support offices to support meal services at small-scale private kindergartens with fewer than 100 children, in accordance with the revised School Meal Act.

Until now, small-scale private kindergartens with fewer than 100 children were not subject to the School Meal Act. However, the newly revised School Meal Act (effective June 29) includes small-scale private kindergartens with fewer than 100 children within its scope.

Accordingly, the Office of Education plans to assign nutrition teachers to the Office of Education and education support offices to assist with meal management, including nutrition management, hygiene management, and dietary guidance, for small-scale private kindergartens with fewer than 100 children that are not required to have nutrition teachers.

There are a total of 94 private kindergartens with fewer than 100 children in the province. Among them, nutrition teachers will be assigned to the Pohang, Gyeongju, Gimcheon, Gumi, Gyeongsan, and Chilgok education support offices to assist with meal management. For cities and counties with fewer small-scale kindergartens, nutrition teachers will be placed at the provincial Office of Education to support meal management.

Additionally, kindergartens with fewer than 50 children will be managed by the education (support) offices in connection with the existing Child Meal Support Centers.

Park Jongjin, Director of the Physical Education and Health Division, stated, “In response to the revision of the School Meal Act, we will assign nutrition teachers to education (support) offices to strengthen meal support for small-scale private kindergartens without assigned nutrition teachers, striving to provide safer and healthier school meals.”

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