Gangdong-gu Wins Grand Prize at Manifesto Best Practice Competition

Gangdong-gu Achieves 'Grand Prize' at Manifesto Best Practice Competition

In the Field of Job Creation and Employment Improvement, 'Nation’s First Gangdong-type Childcare Center Staff Rights Protection System Established'

Substantial Improvement in Childcare Staff Working Conditions... Expected Enhancement in Job Satisfaction and Quality Childcare Services

Gangdong-gu (Mayor Lee Suhee) announced that it won the Grand Prize at the ‘2023 National Basic Local Government Heads Manifesto Best Practice Competition’ hosted by the Korea Manifesto Practice Headquarters.

This competition aims to discover outstanding cases among the pledges and policies of local government heads in the 8th term of direct elections. A total of 155 basic local governments nationwide participated, competing with 364 cases. After document screening and presentation evaluations, excellent cases were finally selected in seven categories.

Gangdong-gu presented the project titled ‘Nation’s First Gangdong-type Childcare Center Staff Rights Protection System’ in the field of job creation and employment improvement. The presentation included initiatives for practical improvement of working conditions for childcare workers, such as ▲improving the teacher-to-child ratio in Gangdong-type childcare centers ▲supporting assistant teachers for play activities through the ‘Young Children Together Value’ program ▲providing substitute personnel support for childcare staff ▲and projects to improve childcare staff treatment.

Through this project, Gangdong-gu became the first in the nation to improve the number of children per teacher across all types of childcare centers, support assistant teachers for play activities for young children with developmental delays, and practically improve working conditions such as guaranteeing break times for childcare teachers. The project was highly praised as a pioneering policy that also proposed a solution to overcome the unstable employment environment in the era of low birth rates by creating jobs in the childcare field, leading to its selection as the best practice case.

Mayor Lee Suhee of Gangdong-gu said, “Childcare staff must be happy for children to be happy.” She added, “I hope that the rights of childcare staff will be practically guaranteed through the establishment of the nation’s first Gangdong-type Childcare Center Staff Rights Protection System, and I will continue to carefully oversee the childcare field so that all childcare workers can work joyfully.”

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