Chengdu, May 5 (Reporter Wang Peng) In recent years, with the in-depth implementation of the three-child policy, many families have new concerns about childbirth - children under the age of 28 cannot go to kindergarten, parents need to work, the elderly are too tired to take their children, and they are not at ease when they are sent to childcare institutions.
In this context, "standardized development of childcare institutions and reassuring parents" has become an inevitable requirement. Since 2020, Chengdu has introduced a series of measures to promote the standardized development of the childcare industry. What is the current development of childcare in Chengdu? What are the innovations? Recently, a reporter from Chinanews.com paid a visit.
Health administrator system: escort "medical and educational integration"
According to data released by the National Health Commission, the number of infants under the age of three in China exceeds 3200 million, with about 1000 million new every year. More than one-third of urban households have childcare needs, and this demand is even stronger in developed regions and first-tier cities.
In the Mengniujia Nursery Center in Jinniu District, Chengdu, there is a special position - health care worker. Every morning, health worker He Yue conducts a morning health check for the children entering the kindergarten, inspects the meals, and formulates nutritious recipes for the children every week. Every month, she also monitors the children's height and weight changes and gives timely feedback to parents.
In a childcare institution in Chengdu, health workers examine the mouths of young children. Photo by Wang Peng
He Yue said that the duty of health care workers is to combine the professional knowledge of child protection to guide childcare institutions and health care personnel, take the initiative to intervene and correct children's bad living habits, and help childcare institutions and parents to raise scientifically together. "For example, many children are brought by the elderly at home, too spoiled, children sleep in, brunch is irregular; When playing, the amount of exercise is not scientifically controlled, which is not conducive to healthy growth. ”
In addition to the health workers who carry out daily health care in childcare institutions, the registered childcare institutions in Chengdu are currently equipped with health administrators, most of whom are child health care staff in local maternal and child health hospitals and primary medical institutions. The reporter learned that the clinical experience and advantages of medical staff in the child health department are closer to the actual problems and needs of infants and young children aged 0-3, so the Chengdu Municipal Health Commission innovatively proposed a health administrator system.
Ren Yan, deputy director of the health department of Chengdu Women and Children's Central Hospital (Chengdu Infant Care Service Guidance Center), told reporters that the hospital will regularly train health workers and health administrators in the city on business and management requirements, and carry out quality control. "Health administrators conduct health care-related training for childcare institutions at least once a quarter, and organize health care work seminars or infant health knowledge lectures attended by practitioners and parents of childcare institutions every six months."
Parents: "Affordable prices, more assured"
In the long run, domestic childcare institutions generally charge higher fees, often 7 to 8,000 yuan per month, which discourages many parents. The reporter learned that Chengdu is building an inclusive and priority childcare service system, such as in urban communities, using community complexes and state-owned idle assets to cooperate with professional childcare service institutions to open inclusive childcare.
In a kindergarten in Chengdu, young children are eating. Photo by Wang Peng
Mengniujia Childcare Center, which is separated from the Jinniu District Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital in Chengdu, is an inclusive childcare institution built by the Jinniu District Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital. Yang Liqun, a citizen of Chengdu, said that in addition to the cheap cost, "the family can fully afford it", what surprised her even more was the meticulous service of the childcare center and the guarantee of "combination of medical and education". "The nursery center has health workers and health administrators, and the cultivation of children's habits is very good, before the family was an elderly person with children, very doting, habits are not good." Yang Liqun said that institutions pay special attention to the child's health status, such as tonsil inflammation, which can be detected quickly, so as to avoid delays.
In addition, the nutritious meals of Chengdu childcare institutions also make parents "more assured". Yang Liqun said that with a special doctor to formulate nutritious meals, children can eat "more scientific nutrition" than at home.
The integration of childcare and childcare is an important development direction of Chengdu's childcare system, and kindergartens have been quite mature in nutritional diet management in years of operation. The reporter saw in the canteen of the third kindergarten of the Chengdu city organ that the canteen of the childcare institution will even register each child's allergen and display it on the electronic screen in real time to prevent the child's allergy from the source.
"Under the guidance of Chengdu Women and Children's Central Hospital, we scientifically formulate meal plans for children every quarter, calculate the amount of meals every week, and collect allergens from parents in advance." Zhang Linxiao, director of the office of the third kindergarten group of the Chengdu municipal organ, said.
China took the lead in compiling and publishing the "Official Guide with Babies"
In the development of childcare in Chengdu, the "Chengdu Family Infant Care Guide (Trial)" and "Chengdu Infant Care Service Guide (Trial)" compiled by experts commissioned by the Chengdu Municipal Health Commission and the "Chengdu Infant Care Service Guide (Trial)" were officially issued in 2021, which attracted special attention, which is also the first exploration in the field of infant and child care in Chengdu in China.
"In my daily work, I found that many parents and childcare institutions are eager for scientific knowledge of infant and child care, and collect it through the Internet and other forms, but the content is uneven." As one of the editors-in-chief, Ren Yan introduced the original intention of the preparation of the two Guides.
According to reports, one of the two "Guidelines" is aimed at parents, telling parents the problems that need to be paid attention to in the process of raising their children during the period of home, from birth to before the age of three; The second target is childcare institutions, including feeding nutritious meals, accidental injury prevention, infectious disease prevention and control, sanitation and disinfection, etc. "Most of them are aspects that are highly professional in the process of infant care, which have a great impact on the life safety, growth and development of infants and young children, and are not easy to grasp."
In a nursery school in Chengdu, staff dress children. Photo by Lv Yang
"The 'combination of medical education' model explored by Chengdu is based on the physiological and psychological development characteristics of infants and young children aged 0-3." Ren Yan said that for infants and young children aged 0-3, the most important thing is health and safety, responsive care and early development, so it is necessary to understand their physiological and psychological characteristics, and then determine recipes, feeding methods, etc. "In this regard, medical institutions have natural advantages." ”
Ren Yan introduced that Chengdu has incorporated the work of infant care into basic public health services, "on the one hand, primary health care institutions are required to enter childcare institutions, and on the other hand, the guidance and management of health care of childcare institutions in the jurisdiction of primary medical institutions are included in the institutional review." ”
Ren Yan revealed that at present, Chengdu Women and Children's Central Hospital is leading the construction of an electronic information system for childcare institutions in the city, which will be connected with the Chengdu "Maternal and Child Card" health information management system in the future, and is expected to be put into use by the end of 2023.
Data show that in the past two years, Chengdu has added more than 6800,3 inclusive childcare places, and the enrollment rate of infants under the age of 2020 has increased by 2.7 percentage points compared with <>. (End)
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