Incheon City to Recruit 20 New Public-Type Daycare Centers... Support for Operating Expenses and More

Incheon City is aiming to achieve a 50% utilization rate of public childcare by 2026 and is expanding public-type daycare centers. On the 23rd, the city announced that it will recruit 20 new 'public-type daycare centers' this year, which provide childcare services comparable to national and public daycare centers.

The city plans to designate public-type daycare centers by evaluating childcare staff expertise, facility stability, and appropriateness of meal and snack costs among private and home daycare centers that are not supported by the government and have applied for the public recruitment. After the first screening by the district and county offices, the second screening will be conducted by the city, and the final results are expected to be announced around the end of September. The designation period for the public-type daycare centers selected this time will be three years, from October this year to September 2026.

Since public-type daycare centers aim to provide childcare services at a level comparable to national and public daycare centers, they will receive various supports such as operating expenses, cook wages, support funds for activating toddler classes, and quality improvement costs for the Nuri curriculum. Among these, the quality improvement costs for the Nuri curriculum is a new project this year. Daycare centers wishing to apply for designation can do so through the 'Daycare Center Support System' by the 9th of next month.

As of the end of this month, there are 123 public-type daycare centers in Incheon, and if the target of 20 new designations is met, the total will increase to 143. The city plans to expand public childcare daycare centers to 300 by 2026 to raise the utilization rate of public childcare to 50%. Public childcare daycare centers are divided into national and public daycare centers, public-type daycare centers, and Incheon-type daycare centers.

An official from Incheon City said, "Being designated as a public-type daycare center means being able to provide higher quality childcare services, so we hope for a lot of support."

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