Nursery＆Certified child Garden Admission（保育所（園）・認定こども園の入所）

　Hoikusho/hoikuen (nurseries) are facilities that care for infants and young children in place of parents or guardians who are unable to look after their children due to work or other circumstances.

Nintei-kodomoen (certified child care facilities) are facilities that combine certain functions and characteristics of yōchien (kindergartens) and hoikusho/hoikuen, and provide childrearing assistance in the community.

Hoikusho/hoikuen and nintei-kodomoen may be used by parents or guardians of children who are deemed to have at least one of the following “reasons for requiring day care” and who have been issued with a child-care allowance certificate.

Reasons for Requiring Day Care:

(1)   Parent/guardian is working (parent/guardian regularly works 64 hours/month; includes full-time, part-time, nightshift work, and work-from-home)

(2)   Parent/guardian is pregnant or in postnatal care

(3)   Parent/guardian has illness or disability

(4)   Parent/guardian is taking care of co-residing relative(s)

(5)   Parent/guardian is undertaking restoration work

(6)   Parent/guardian is seeking work (or preparing to set up a business)

(7)   Parent/guardian is receiving education (or training at a vocational school)

(8)   Parent/guardian is a victim of domestic violence or other type of abuse

(9)   Parent/guardian has a child that was already enrolled in a child care facility when the parent/guardian acquired parental leave, and continued use of this facility is necessary

(10) Any other reason that Yao City deems to be of a similar nature to those listed above

 *Please note that there may be cases (such as insufficient numbers of staff) in which admission cannot be granted even if one or more of the reasons for requiring day care apply. Where the number of applicants exceeds the number of places available, Yao City will examine the applications of child-care allowance certificate recipients and award places to those it deems to be in most need of the service.

　保育所（園）は、保護者の就労などのために、保育を必要とする乳児または幼児を保護者にかわって保育を行うことを目的とする施設です。

認定こども園は、幼稚園と保育所(園)の機能や特徴をあわせもち、地域の子育て支援も行う施設です。

保育所(園)・認定こども園の保育利用については、児童の保護者が、下記のいずれかの「保育を必要とする事由」に該当していると認定され、支給認定証の交付を受けられた方が利用できます。

(1)就労（月64時間の労働を常態としていること。フルタイム、パートタイム、夜勤、居宅内労働を含みます）

(2)妊娠・出産

(3)保護者の疾病・障がい

(4)同居親族の介護・看護

(5)災害復旧

(6)求職活動（起業準備を含む）

(7)就学（職業訓練校等における職業訓練を含む）

(8)虐待やDVのおそれがあること

(9)育児休業取得時に、既に保育を利用している子どもがいて、継続利用が必要であること

(10)その他上記に類する状態として市町村が定める事由

※上記の「保育を必要とする事由」に該当していても、保育所（園）等の定員等の状況で入所できない場合があります。入所可能人数を越えて施設の利用申請があった場合は、支給認定証の交付を受けた方の中から利用調整により入所児童を決定します。

Child Care/Early Childhood Education Division（保育・こども園課）     TEL 072－924－8529