Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongbuk Selected as Best Institution for Childcare Services Last Year

Ministry of Gender Equality and Family Announces Selection Results of 35 Outstanding Institutions
First Place by Category: Busan Buk, Chungnam Gongju, Gyeongnam Geochang, and Others

The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced on the 10th that a total of 35 institutions, including Gyeongsan City in Gyeongbuk Province, were selected as excellent institutions in the '2022 Evaluation of Childcare Service Providers.'

This evaluation was conducted on all 227 childcare service providers nationwide, classified into three groups: urban, semi-urban, and rural, covering overall tasks such as caregiver activities, service provision, budget execution, and post-service inspection measures.

The Gyeongsan City service institution in Gyeongbuk, selected as the overall best institution, received high evaluations in most areas including user satisfaction, caregiver activity rate, increase rate of user families, budget execution fidelity, and continuous service inspection feedback.

The Busan Buk-gu service institution, ranked first among urban area excellent institutions, earned good evaluations for the staff’s ability to quickly and accurately identify user family requests and connect services. The increase in the number of user households compared to the previous year was significant, and safety management and service inspection cooperation were also excellent.

The Gongju City service institution in Chungnam, ranked first among semi-urban area excellent institutions, received good scores in caregiver participation rates and made efforts in continuing education to provide care services considering children's developmental stages and temperamental characteristics.

The Geochang-gun service institution in Gyeongnam, ranked first among rural area excellent institutions, paid attention not only to user satisfaction but also to improving job satisfaction such as the sense of mission and pride of affiliated caregivers, enabling the smooth provision of high-quality services on site.

The operational cases of the excellent institutions selected this time will be widely disseminated through service improvement consultations provided by the Childcare Central Support Center, and ministerial awards will be presented at the nationwide 'Childcare Support Project Communication Day' event to be held in October.

Lee Gi-soon, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, said, “Service institutions nationwide are striving to provide reliable and professional childcare services based on communication and empathy with user families,” adding, “The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family will do its best to further expand childcare services so that the future leaders of Korea can grow up bright and healthy within family happiness.”

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