The 3rd Yokohama City Child and Child Care Support Project Plan (Reiwa 7-11)

Announced on October 16, "Children, everyone plays a leading role! About "Yokohama Waku Waku Plan" draft, we pushed forward examination while referring to various opinions from citizens and compiled the original draft.
This plan will be submitted to the 1st City Counsil Regular Meeting in 2025 as a bill, deliberated by Congress, and decided and announced after a resolution.

Children, everyone plays a leading role! Yokohama Waku Waku Plan Draft (PDF: 3,278KB) 　　※We do not distribute original draft booklets.

　In Yokohama City, "Children, everyone plays a leading role! For development of "Yokohama Waku Waku Plan" (the third Yokohama-shi child, child care support project plan / Yokohama-shi child plan) (hereinafter referred to as "plan"), we announced plan draft in October, 2024 and carried out public comment.
　In addition to soliciting opinions using drafts and summary version materials, we conducted opinion solicitation using easy-to-understand plain language to reflect children's opinions in the plan. Thank you for receiving many valuable opinions from citizens.
　We have compiled the results of the implementation and the opinions and opinions received, and will announce them as follows.

"Children, everyone plays a leading role! About conduct result of public comment about draft "Yokohama Waku Waku Plan" draft (PDF: 2,043KB)

[Split file]
　Normal version (PDF: 1,297KB)
　Easy Version (PDF: 847KB)
　Easy version (extracts of opinions up to teenagers) [Click here for voices sent by children] (PDF: 568KB)

[Reference]
　Overview pamphlet (PDF: 764KB)
　Easy summary version brochure (PDF: 2,129KB)

Text data
　Overview pamphlet (text version) (text file: 40KB)
　Easy summary version brochure (text version) (text file: 12KB)

Reception period (Receiving Kikan): From Thursday, October 17, 2024 to Friday, November 15 (finished)

※Based on the purpose of the Children's Basic Law and the Yokohama City Children and Child Care Basic Ordinance, we raised opinions using easy version materials using plain language that is easy for children to understand to reflect the opinions of children in the plan.

Implementation period: From Thursday, October 17, 2024 to Friday, November 15 (finished)

Children, everyone plays a leading role! Yokohama Waku Waku Plan [draft] (PDF: 2,145KB)

Text version
　Children, everyone plays a leading role! Yokohama Waku Waku Plan [draft / text version] (text file: 235KB)

For the next plan (plan period: Reiwa 7-11), we conducted a questionnaire survey to understand the current situation and needs of families raising children.
<Type of Survey>
　（１） A survey to understand the current situation of childcare for preschool children and the needs of parents (hereinafter referred to as “Preschoolers Survey”)
　（２） Survey to understand the current situation of elementary school students after school and the needs of parents (hereinafter referred to as "elementary school students survey") (* 1)
<Extraction method>
　Random sampling from Basic Resident Register (extracted so that there is no overlap between households)
<Number of Extracted Households>
　（１） Preschool child survey: 64,416 cases
　（２） Elementary school student survey: 65,892 cases
　Total: 130,308 cases
<Survey time>
　October 1-October 31, 2013
<Recovery status>
　（１） Preschool child survey: 33,321 collections (collection rate: 51.7%)
　（２） Elementary school student survey　：31,938 collections (collection rate: 48.5%)
　Total: 65,259 collections (collection rate: 50.1%)
※１： In the elementary school survey, a questionnaire stating questions for the child is enclosed (the answer target is the child whose address is 4th to 6th graders). Of the 65,892 elementary school surveys, 33,068 children in grades 4 to 6 and 12,445 collections (collection rate: 37.6%) were collected.
<Report>
　（１） Overview of Needs Survey (PDF: 1,703KB)
　（２） Needs survey (preschool child survey) (PDF: 5,254KB)
　（３） Needs survey (elementary school student survey) (PDF: 4,472KB)
　（４） Needs survey (elementary school student survey: questions for children themselves) (PDF: 1,310KB)
　（５） Needs survey (Documents) (PDF: 3,667KB)

Flyer (PDF: 1,299KB)

For the next plan (plan period: Reiwa 7-11), what you are having trouble raising children, what you are happy, what you want you to understand, etc.
We held a group talk to think about child care in Yokohama together while talking about the true intentions of child care among participants.
・Target: Those who are raising children from babies to high school students and those who are interested in raising children [first 30 people at each venue (advance application)]
・Report: Report (PDF: 1,070KB)

As one of the initiatives to listen to the opinions of children, we conducted a hearing survey with young people who have experienced social care as a base for local activities for young people.
・Hearing Survey Report (PDF: 1,045KB)