The Committee on Review of Residential Child Care and Related Services announced the completion of the first version of the review report, raising 30 suggestions to improve the service quality in children’s residential homes. In addition, it is proposed to increase the staffing ratio from the current ratio of childcare workers to children under their care from 1 to 6.2 to 1 to 4.5 and to create new positions of childcare assistants to share the workload with childcare workers. to children’s centers. The Committee also emphasized that the superintendents of children’s centers should identify the child being abused or neglected and supervise the staff on time. “It is difficult to recruit child care workers for residential child care centers compared to other child care services,” he said, “I hope the salary standard of them could be raised, which could benefit better services for children.”

Source: The Standard August 17, 2022 20:57 UTC