What is a small-scale childcare business?

Target age

0-2 year olds

Capacity

6 to 19 people

6 to 10 people

Childcare workers

Placement ratio

One for every three 0-year-olds, one for every six 1-2-year-olds, and one additional childcare worker will provide childcare.

One childcare worker takes care of each of three children aged 0 to 2 years. In addition, when there is an assistant, one childcare worker and one assistant provide childcare for 5 children aged 0 to 2 years.

Qualification

All nursery teachers

More than 2/3 nursery teachers
Those who have completed the necessary training other than nursery teachers

Home-based childcare workers and assistants
※A certain level of training is required

school lunch

In-house cooking
(In some cases, school lunch may be brought in from partner facilities.)

In-house cooking
(However, until FY2019, there may be cases where you bring a lunch box or carry it in outside due to transitional measures.)

Cooperation facilities

We will work with one of the facilities of authorized child institution, kindergarten or licensed nursery schools. Cooperation facilities provide support for small-scale childcare businesses such as "support for childcare content", "providing alternative childcare", and "securing advanced destinations after graduation".
However, "Securing advanced destinations after graduation" may not be set as a transitional measure until FY2019.