(1) Reasons for Proposal
The Amendment adds reasons to revoke the designation of temporary infant care service providers to ensure appropriate operation and management. It streamlines qualification requirements such that special teachers who meet certain experience requirements, etc., shall also be deemed qualified to be a principal of a child-care center. It also prescribes conditions for exemption of child-care centers from administrative fines where a guardian fails to carry out a medical checkup of an infant despite notifications from the child-care center, and otherwise addresses and improves upon weaknesses that have emerged from the operation of current provisions.
(2) Major Provisions
A. Add reasons to revoke the designation of temporary infant care service providers (Article 21-3 amended)
Prescribe that failure to provide temporary infant care services for 3 months or more after designation, forfeiting operation, suspending operation for 3 months or more, and any violation of the standards for operation specified by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health and Welfare shall be reasons to revoke a designation
B. Prescribe the delegation of eligibility and criteria for child home-care allowances (Article 21-8 amended)
Add provisions entrusting the Minister of Health and Welfare to determine the eligibility, criteria, etc., for child home-care allowances
C. Include special teachers in the eligibility criteria for principals of child-care centers (attached Table 1 amended)
Add teachers of special schools (kindergartens, elementary schools) pursuant to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act with work experience in infant care or other child welfare for at least a certain period to the eligibility criteria for becoming a principal of a child-care center
D. Prescribe conditions for exemption of child-care centers from administrative fines where infants have not undergone medical checkups (attached Table 2 amended)
Prescribe that under inevitable circumstances where the principal of a child-care center has provided a guardian with a written notice on a medical checkup at least three times but the guardian refuses the medical checkup, the child-care center shall be excluded from the relevant administrative fines
