From the moment when a child is born to the time when he or she enters kindergarten at the age of 3, the daily care of babies troubles many young parents who have to work during the day.In their daily life, the children under the age of 3 can hardly be separated from others for a moment, which makes it difficult for the parents in charge of the care to go out for a short time.
How to strengthen the construction of a child-care service system for the kids under 3 and effectively alleviate the worries of each family?
On March 3, the joint meeting of kindergarten and preschool education and the meeting for promotion of community nursery services in Hongkou District were held. Attendees included Chen Xiaojie, deputy district governor, Sun Hong, director of the nursery department of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and the officials from 10 departments including Hongkou District Education Party Committee, Hongkou District Education Bureau, and Hongkou District Development and Reform Commission, as well as the heads from the sub-districts.
At the meeting, head of Hongkou District Education Bureau introduced the plan for promoting community nursery services in Hongkou. At the end of this January, under the leadership of the bureau, a working community formed with the sub-districts and relevant departments formulated the Implementation Plan for Promoting Community Nursery Services in Hongkou District and worked out the standards for the Baby Homes in the communities according to the relevant requirements of the municipal government. Hongkou will deepen community nursery services and improve the quality through multi-sector collaboration, multi-agent participation, multi-function integration and multi-platform assistance.
The heads of Hongkou District Development and Reform Commission and Quyang Road Sub-district delivered speeches and put forward their ideas.
At the meeting, the baby homes in 8 sub-districts were honored with the title. According to the plan, Hongkou will achieve full coverage of baby homes in 8 sub-districts in 2023.
The brand of community nursery service of Hongkou District was announced at the meeting, and "Caihong Kaidi" was determined as the brand logo after collecting the opinions from all departments and sub-districts.
"Caihong Kaidi" is the brand of scientific childcare guidance service of Hongkou District, and also the brand logo of nursery service in Hongkou’s communities.
"Caihong" means that the diverse environments and carefully planned scientific childcare guidance program will provide multiple support for infant development.
"Kaidi" is the homonym of "candy" in English, and implies that children's life is as sweet as candy.
Taking "Caihong Kaidi" as the logo of "Baby Home" is not only the embodiment of the brand of early education for children in Hongkou, but also means that children are carefully looked after in the "Baby Homes", and life is as sweet as honey.
To promote the construction of "Baby Homes", Hongkou District Education Bureau visit the 8 sub-districts to guide the communities to carry out the construction of a community nursery service system. Quyang Road Sub-district took the lead in consolidating resources and built the first "Baby Home" in Hongkou in November 2022. Since January 2023, Jiaxing Road Sub-district, Liangcheng Xincun Sub-district and North Bund Sub-district have also carried out trial operation on the "Baby Homes".
Next, Guangzhong Road Sub-district, Jiangwan Town Sub-district, North Sichuan Road Sub-district and Ouyang Road Sub-district will follow suit. With these embedded and standardized baby homes, Hongkou will provide time-based nursery services for children aging 1 to 3 in the communities, and strive to create a "15-minute nursery service circle" with safe environment, complete facilities and professional services.
How to register for the baby homes? Hongkou has built a reservation platform, which will be open to parents in due time. Parents can get the basic information of the nearby baby homes through the Hongkou flagship store in "Sui Shen Ban" app and make a reservation to have their children taken good care of at any time. The needs of families for childcare services are met, and the lovely kids are provided with the warmest care.
Hongkou District Education Bureau will work with the sub-districts and relevant departments to form a working community of nursery services for increasing quantity and improving quality, build a number of high-quality baby homes for demonstration, exert the function of the baby home as a scientific childcare guidance station, provide warmer and more considerate services for kids and parents, and build a "15-minute nursery service circle" to improve the people's sense of gain and happiness.