Child care in Hungary

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Child care in Hungary

• Marta Korintus
• National Institute for Family and Social
  Policy, Hungary

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Family support system

• Financial support
• direct financial support
• tax relief
• Provisions / services
• child care and kindergarten
• Parental leave
• child care leave
• leave for child sickness

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Child care

• Child care centers center based care for
  children under the age of 3
• Kindergartens center based care for 3-6
  year-olds
• After-school care for 6-14 year-olds
• Family day care for 6 month 14 year-olds

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Child care centers

• Average size of centers 60 places
• Size of groups 10-12 children
• Number of adults / group
• 2 caregivers
• ½ support staff
• Adult / child ratio 1/5 or 1/6
• Additional services are offered

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ITERS and ECERS-R survey

• Date 1998-1999
• Sample 4 of child care places for under 3s in
  Hungary
• Observations 1 group in each of the selected 105
  centers
• 41 ITERS
• 64 ECERS-R

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ITERS and ECERS-R results

• Average score for ITERS 5.19
• Range 3.39 to 6.21
• Average score for ECERS-R 5.2
• Range 5.04 to 6.25

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Kindergartens

• Average size of centers 60 places
• Size of groups 20-25 children
• Number of adults / group
• 2 kindergarten teachers
• 1 support staff
• Adult / child ratio 1/10 or 1/12
• Additional services are offered

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After school care

• Age group 6 14 year-olds
• Afternoon programs in the schools
• Traditional class-type activities
• Activity clubs
• Out of school programs

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Family day care

• Age group 6 months to 14 year-olds
• Number of children allowed
• 5 / provider
• 7 / provider 1 support staff
• Sites
• Family homes
• Rented houses

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Family day care

• Self-employed providers
• License is required
• Licensing includes a 40 hour introductory course
• Financing
• Parental fees
• Local authority support

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Management training program

• The reasons for developing the training program
  were the need
• To diversify child care in Hungary
• To develop the non-governmental sector in child
  care