Tarikh:
13-9-2013
STRICT: Ensuring operators
follow standard operating procedures
SEREMBAN: THE Women, Family
and Community Development Ministry aims to increase the number of childcare
centres registered with the Welfare Department (JKM) from the existing 644 to
900 by year-end.
Its minister Datuk Rohani
Karim said this was part of the ministry's Key Performance Indicator for this
year and would enable them to monitor the childcare centres' operations.
"The move to register
childcare centres operated by non-governmental-organisations (NGOs), or
privately-owned, is to ensure they follow the standard operating
procedures," said Rohani in her working visit to the state, where she was
briefed by the ministry's state department and agencies at the Negri Sembilan
National Population and Family Board (LPPKN) centre here.
Rohani said parents who are
afraid of leaving their children at home for fear of them being abused by
maids, should consider sending their children to the registered childcare
centres, which are supervised by JKM.
"It is cheaper and
safer to send children to these registered centres as the operators not only
have trained caretakers but also follow certain procedures such as on how to
care for babies or children under 4 years old."
She said parents with a
household income of less than RM3,000 a month can also receive a RM180 subsidy
per child if they send their children to the JKM-registered centres. Parents
earning less than RM500 a month will receive a RM250 subsidy per child.
Also present were Rohani's
deputy Datuk Azizah Mohd Dun, state women and family development committee
chairman Datuk Norhayati Omar and Negri Sembilan LPPKN director Ramli Shabudin.
Rohani also visited the
homes of two senior citizens who are under the JKM's Homehelp programme at
Kampong Batu 2, Jalan Jelebu.
Source: http://www.barisannasional.org.my/node/4890
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