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

Admission to a nursery, certified Childcare Centre or small childcare facility（保育所（園）・認定こども園・小規模保育施設の入所）

Hoikusho/hoikuen (nurseries), certified childcare centers and small childcare facilities 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 ,nintei-kodomoen and small childcare facilities 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 per month; not included break time; 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 the primary caregiver of a family member
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 escaped from domestic violence or abusive situations.
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. Others (childcare support)

*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.

（日本語訳）

保育所（園）・認定こども園・小規模保育施設は、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・小規模保育施設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（休憩時間含まず）以上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. 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による避難等
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（保育サポート）

※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。

Contact details（お問合せ）

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