Jeonnam Provincial Assembly Member Park Moon-ok Holds Communication Meeting with Local Children's Centers

Park Moon-ok, a member of the Jeonnam Provincial Assembly, held an on-site communication meeting with the heads of 11 local children's centers in Mokpo. Photo by Jeonnam Provincial Assembly

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Jun-kyung] On the 8th, the Jeonnam Provincial Council announced that Park Moon-ok, a council member of the Democratic Party of Korea (Mokpo 3), held an on-site communication meeting at the Mokpo Hope Nuri Regional Child Center with directors from 11 local child centers in the area.

At the meeting, the center directors expressed operational difficulties after COVID-19, including ▲lack of communication with school care ▲insufficient operating budget and personnel ▲the necessity of support for essential equipment.

They also pointed out issues related to personnel expenses included in the operating costs and demanded improvements in care policies and better treatment for workers.

They requested that personnel expenses be supported at the level of other social workers and that the ‘Child Welfare Teacher’ and ‘Kkum Sadari Study Room’ support projects, currently provided to centers with 29 or more children, be extended to centers with 19 or more children.

Council member Park Moon-ok emphasized, “Just as Jeonnam Province and 22 cities and counties cooperated last year to improve the treatment of youth leaders, we will actively cooperate to improve the treatment of care welfare workers at local child centers.”

She added, “We will strive to increase the number of personnel for the ‘Kkum Sadari Study Room’ currently provided to about 120 centers to strengthen the care system.”

Jeonnam provides child welfare services for after-school, Saturdays, and vacation periods to about 10,000 children in approximately 377 local child centers across the province.

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