Songpa-gu Enhances Transparency in Local Subsidy Project Management

First Administrative Consulting Conducted for 30 District-Operated Social Welfare Facilities

Targeting 30 district-operated social welfare facilities including local daycare centers, Kiwoom Centers, and senior welfare centers

Providing focused administrative consulting on ▲facility operation ▲staff management ▲accounting management ▲function enhancement projects

Seo Gang-seok, District Mayor: “Providing administrative consulting for district-operated facilities to enhance publicness and transparency and promote a culture of integrity”

Pungnap Daycare Center Consulting

Songpa-gu (District Mayor Seo Gang-seok) announced that it will provide administrative consulting to 30 district-operated social welfare facilities including local daycare centers, Kiwoom Centers, and senior welfare centers to enhance the publicness and professionalism of social welfare facility operations in the region and to spread a culture of integrity.

The district introduced administrative consulting for the first time this year to ensure that social welfare facilities use local subsidies appropriately. Seo Gang-seok, Mayor of Songpa-gu, explained, “The main role of administration is to efficiently use the budget to carry out public interest projects that consider future generations. This year, when the detailed projects of the 8th elected term are in full swing, we launched this project to provide optimal welfare services to residents through proper budget execution.”

As this is the first implementation, the district decided to prioritize consulting for district-operated facilities. The consulting will be conducted for 10 district-operated daycare centers, 10 senior welfare facilities and day care centers, and 10 Kiwoom Centers, with plans to gradually expand to privately operated institutions.

The consulting will be conducted by professional consultants who possess specialized knowledge and experience as well as administrative agent certification.

The scope of consulting covers all aspects of social welfare facility operations, including ▲facility operation ▲staff management ▲accounting management ▲function enhancement projects.

Consultants visit each facility to evaluate overall operations such as finance and labor, immediately identify corrective actions and difficulties, and suggest alternatives for tasks requiring improvement. They widely disseminate best practices to provide comprehensive support for strengthening the administrative capabilities of social welfare facilities.

In particular, this consulting will focus more on improvement through root cause analysis rather than on punitive measures for identified issues. By strengthening administrative capacity in local social welfare facilities, the district plans to encourage proper labor-management relations and efficient execution of local subsidies.

The district plans to complete all administrative consulting by September and publish and distribute a ‘Consulting Casebook’ for institutions facing similar issues in the future.

Seo Gang-seok, Mayor of Songpa-gu, expressed, “I thank the staff of each institution who are working hard to create a warm society where life is worth living even in difficult circumstances. Through this consulting, we will resolve administrative concerns in social welfare facility operations and enhance publicness and professionalism.”

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