Goseong-gun Realizes Safe Childcare... Two Additional Open Childcare Centers Designated

Goseong-gun, Gyeongnam Province announced on the 2nd that it has additionally designated two daycare centers in the area (Goseong Daycare Center, Kkumnamu Daycare Center) as Open Daycare Centers to create a safe childcare environment where parents can confidently leave their children.

Goseong Daycare Center.

In October, two daycare centers in the area applied to become Open Daycare Centers. On October 24, the Childcare Policy Committee held a meeting to evaluate four categories (openness, participation, diversity, and local government standards). Two daycare centers that scored 80 points or higher out of 100 and met the minimum score criteria for each category were finally selected.

As a result, including the existing 10 centers, 11 out of the total 14 daycare centers in Goseong-gun have been designated as Open Daycare Centers.

Open Daycare Centers are one of the measures to eradicate child abuse. They are a type of daycare operation where parents participate regularly in childcare programs and daycare management, along with the physical openness of the daycare space. Selected centers receive benefits such as priority in new public daycare center designations and additional points during re-commissioning evaluations of national and public daycare centers.

Kim Hyun-joo, Director of the Education and Youth Division, stated, “Open Daycare Centers contribute to creating a healthy nurturing environment together with children, parents, daycare centers, and the local community. Moving forward, we will do our best to establish a safe childcare environment where children can be entrusted with confidence, not only by selecting Open Daycare Centers but also through child rights education and child abuse prevention training for childcare staff.”

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