Ninshohoikuen “認証保育園” (Authentication nursery school) is unique nursery system established by Tokyo.
Mothers who want to return back to work right after maternity leave for pregnancy have increased recently. These mothers’ feelings express clearly the tendency that Japanese women who want to work as soon as possible initiatively even after childbirth have increased year by year.
Nursery demands tend to be diversified due to women’s empowerment such as the ones of services for mothers who come back home late, convenient place to pick up a child and well supervised facility by the government and reliable nursery fee. Authentication nursery school is a place to respond to those mothers’ requests.
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What exactly authentication nursery school is
It is quite difficult for all the nursery schools or kindergartens to satisfy the nursery standards in a big city like Tokyo perfectly prior to installing nursery facility due to buildings concentration.
In such a situation, It seems there is a little hope to attract more companies to enter the nursery industry because of nursery standards restriction. Tokyo established this nursery system in the form of easing and extending the range of conditions.
Tokyo expects quality enhancement and uniqueness that responds to wide range of diversity and demands by the principle of competitiveness between companies.
Types of authentication nursery schools
There are roughly two types of nursery school is authentication type. The one is station building installed nursery schools, called A type and the other one is house type nursery schools, called B type.
A type nursery school overview
- Look after 0 year to 5 year old children that need care for more than 150 hours per month
- There are from 20 to 120 nursery teachers
- It has equivalent facility standard and employment standard of licensed kindergarten or nursery school
- It is installed basically in a station building or a building near station.
A type nursery school is mainly for those who are working mothers in full time position that want to leave a child for long hours. It is good advantage for mothers to leave a child until he/she becomes 5 years old without transferring a child to another nursery school halfway.
And facility located in or around station is quite good for commuters to leave and pick up a child swiftly.
B type nursery school overview
- Look after 0 to 2 year old child
- It has equivalent facility standard and employment standard of licensed kindergarten or nursery school
- Domestic childcare
- There are from 6 to 29 nursery teachers
For example. There are mothers who want to leave a little child aged 0 to 2 years old and worry about child’s viruses infection due to crowded children. They tend to choose comparatively small-sized nursery school like B type .
Speaking of a little children aged 0 to 2 years old, they have imperfect and developing body, that still need mother’s care. However, there are some mothers who have to work to support domestic finance without taking maternity leave. In such a situation, to respond to mothers’ worries, B type provides domestic service with small number of teachers to realize cozy environment that children stay at home.
Emotional distance between teachers and children is quite close and children tend to get attached to teachers like mothers.
Difference between licensed kindergartens and authentication nursery schools
Authentication nursery school look after children aged from 0 year old
In case of licensed kindergarten, nursery age is different depending on the kindergartens but in case of authentication nursery school, it is obliged to accept children aged from 0 year old institutionally. So whichever authentication nursery school you choose, even if your child is younger than 1 year old, your child is applicable.
Nursery fee is more expensive than licensed one’s
Licensed kindergarten’s nursery fee is changeable depending on the income of the household. In contrast, Authentication nursery schools are authorized to decide nursery fee individually except for the maximum fee, 80,000 yen.
For that reason, authentication nursery school’s fee tends to be more expensive than licensed one’s
Monthly nursery fee includes expenses of lunch meal, snack, nursery equipment which is in need of looking after children, utility, and annual dues and consumption tax.
Depending on the ward, there is a case that you can receive subsidy by leaving a child in a authentication nursery school.
Opening time is longer than licensed kindergarten’s
Licensed kindergarten’s opening time is 11 hours a day. In contrast, authentication nursery school’s opening time is 13 hours a day. Authentication nursery schools aim at reducing double nursery schools because of opening time limitation by extending 2 hours longer than licensed kindergarten’s opening time.
Apply directly to the nursery school
License kindergarten’s application need to be gone through at a municipal office where you live. However, if you want to make admission application to a authentication nursery school, you have to directly go to the nursery school because authentication nursery school is obliged to explain carefully nursery service to parents directly by a nursery teacher
It is very beneficial for you to prepare a question list beforehand to resolve your worries about nursery care. Then, you will easily imagine what kind of place a child spend the best part of day at.