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(3) In 2021, local governments and NGOs cultivated a total of 412 representatives of children and youth to participate in the policy making and coordination of affairs concerning children and youth to enforce the social participation and the right to be heard of children and youth. In addition, children and youth (including disadvantaged children and youth or those in specific situations from fragile families, remote and rural villages, placement, receiving experimental education or home education) empowerment projects were subsidized to benefit 59,511 person-times.
▏Section 3 Childcare Services
month. The third and each additional child after that received another NTD 1,000 in subsidies per month. In 2021, the subsidies totaled NTD 3,283,551,129 and there were 45,325 beneficiaries on average per month.
As of the end of 2021, there were 71 centers of family childcare service that oversaw 27,547 childcare providers caring for 25,754 children under the age of 2 (Figure 9-2). Of these, 22,880 signed contracts with local governments to become quasi-public family childcare providers for a contracting rate of 92.98%.
As of the end of 2021, there were 1,373 baby care centers with 38,585 children under care in Taiwan as shown in Figure 9-3. These included 1,060 private baby care centers with 28,722 children under care. 859 were contracted under the quasi public policy with contracting rate of 97.84%; there were 313 public institutions run by private baby care centers (including 127 public community baby care centers) with 9,863 children under care.
To increase the supply of public childcare places, fund under the Forward-Looking
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1. Subsidies for public and quasi-public childcare: Families that sent children under the age of 2 to quasi-public family childcare providers or privately-owned baby care centers received monthly subsidies between NTD 7,000 to NTD 11,000 in subsidies each month; those that used public institutions run by private baby care centers received monthly subsidies between NTD 4,000 to 8,000 in subsidies each
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Figure 9-2
Number of people 28,000
27,000 26,000 25,000
24,259 24,000
Number of Family Childcare Providers and Children under Age 2 in Care, by Year
Childcare Providers
Number of children age under 2 in childcare
26,240 25,750
27,099 26,272
26,161 25,379
27,547
25,754
25,364
23,000 22,000 21,000
24,015 23,611
2016
2017
2018 2019
2020 2021
Year
Source : SFAA
Notes : The public and quasi-public childcare policy was implemented on August 1, 2018. Family childcare became a
part of family care and was entitled to childcare allowances and cares are not classed as childcare personnel, therefore the number of people decreased in 2018.
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