Raising the Bar: Hangzhou Revolutionizes Childcare with 1,537 Institutions and 59,000 Services, Easing the Burden of Parenthood

Child care services are linked to the healthy growth of infants and toddlers and millions of families. To solve the problem of “difficulty in accessing kindergarten” and “high cost of education”, from this year the Municipal Health Commission has focused on the main theme of the municipal committee “deepening reform and strengthening the foundation” , and led by the public service “good education for young children” to promote the first batch of Central government financial support for inclusive child care development demonstration project is used as a vector to join strictly to the three keys of “affordable care, accessible care, and good care” to create an inclusive, convenient, safe, scientific and multi-level child care service system.

At present, how effective is the development of inclusive childcare services in our city? Yesterday, the Municipal Government Information Office and the Municipal Health Commission jointly held a press conference on “Deepening Reforms and Prioritizing People’s Livelihoods” to promote the construction of an inclusive child care system and high quality and present the overall situation.

The percentage of places in services for children under 2 years is 18.97%

Child care meets the urgent needs of young families

As an example of a city seeking to become a demonstration area for high-quality development and common prosperity in Zhejiang, Hangzhou has always placed the work of “good education for young children” in an important position.

“This year, we started from eight dimensions, including balanced construction, precise services, inclusive prices and the integration of medical education, to create a convenient, safe, scientific inclusive child care service system and multilevel,” said the responsible head of the Municipal Health Commission According to reports, as of September 19 this year, there were 1,537 infant and child care service institutions in the city, with a total number of health workers who reached 59,000, and 4.7 providers of care services for newborns and children under the age of 3 per 1,000 people. Five” planning of goals and tasks.

Hangzhou is a city with an influx of talent, and “small monthly care” for children under 2 years old has become an urgently needed service for many families with infants and toddlers from “after maternity leave” to “kindergarten” . This year, Hangzhou has mobilized resources and made efforts from both community and work units to tap potential and fill gaps, thereby improving the convenience of child care services. The newly built residential areas were simultaneously designed to build 343 child care rooms, covering an area of ​​more than 70,000 square meters of integrated child care facilities; 104 inclusive public and private community parks; The industrial park invites child care institutions to implement “bringing children to work”. It is worth noting that the share of kindergartens for children under 2 years old in the city reached 18.97%, an increase of 11% compared to the end of the previous year.

Let’s take Gongshu District as an example, which was the first city in the city to explore and promote child care services for children under 2 years old. This year, the district has organized more than 120 child care teachers who plan to engage in the “little month.” care” to carry out systematic training. According to the head of the Gongshu District Health Bureau, through contracts between primary medical institutions and child care institutions, nearly 40 child care teachers in the district have gone to health clinics primary care physicians to conduct “medical education follow-up” studies and primary care child health physicians also regularly enter institutions, conduct developmental assessments on one-month-old infants in care, and guide the institutions to formulate individualized parenting plans for children with developmental deviations.

Based on the “1+1+3087 people” method. The unique digital family doctor “Hangxiaoyu”, full of “Hangzhou rhyme” and “Hangzhou flavor”, regularly sends parents personalized knowledge about parenting and children’s health, providing data support for the development of “integrated medicine and education” services.

5,540 people in the Western Region received parental care subsidies

The action “Reducing costs and increasing efficiency” reduces the burden of raising children on the masses

From “cultivating children well” to “good education in Hangzhou”, Hangzhou’s child care services have great potential. They must not only ensure “good care” and “affordable care”, but also focus on shared wealth, promote urban-rural integration. and provide families with the phrase “You can afford it.”

Starting September 1, Hangzhou’s pilot program will issue monthly child care vouchers of 600 yuan to 1,000 yuan for registered infants and toddlers enrolled in inclusive child care institutions in western districts and counties, and 40 yuan for permanent residents under 3 years old. in the western districts and counties, development screening vouchers are used for free screening once a year to promote the common development of the western districts, counties and major urban areas and lay the foundation for the people. So far, 1,125 people have successfully applied for child care vouchers and 4,415 people have successfully applied for developmental screening vouchers.

“The cost of child care has always been an important factor influencing people’s willingness to provide child care. Since the issuance of parental care vouchers, parents of infants and toddlers have generally welcomed favor and supported this policy. The competent person responsible for Chun.” A county party committee said that the average family in the county can reduce child care expenses by nearly 10,000 yuan a year, which largely eliminates everyone’s worries about child care expenses. ‘childhood.

In order to support the development of high-quality inclusive child care services and reduce costs related to family growth, Hangzhou this year proposed the action of “reducing costs and increasing efficiency” for services of inclusive child care, encouraging neighborhoods, communities and employers to free up space for child care and exempting providers from the need for space. Costs such as rent, interior and exterior decoration, water, electricity and energy consumption, disinfection and hygiene assessment, employee training, health examinations, institutional public liability insurance and other expenses are introduced through competitive bidding, quality competition and other methods to introduce third-party professional institutions to “sit with a bag”, thereby reducing the cost of child care expenses and benefiting the masses.

Taking a kindergarten in an institution in the urban area mentioned above as an example, the current inclusive price is 3,300 yuan/month. After cost reduction and efficiency improvement, it will not be more than 2,755 yuan/month inclusive The price for kindergartens in Chun’an County is 1,562 yuan per month, after cost reduction and efficiency improvement efficiency, will not be more than 1,160 yuan per month, and with the additional 600 yuan of Western childcare vouchers, the actual monthly. the cost of child care will be reduced to about 560 yuan.

Hangzhou is one of the first childcare and childcare demonstration cities in the country, and one of 15 cities approved by the central government to support inclusive childcare development demonstration projects. This year, for the fifth year, childcare services have been included in the municipal government’s livelihood projects. Hangzhou will continue to promote the in-depth development of child care services, reduce the burden of raising children, and reduce blind spots in child care service provision. child care services and fill the gaps in child care talent training, optimize inclusive child care services, and contribute the wisdom of Hangzhou to the practical path of high-quality population development in support of Chinese-style modernization.