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KMID : 1001320140410030183
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Social Welfare Policy
2014 Volume.41 No. 3 p.183 ~ p.212
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A Study on The Child and Youth Welfare Policy Overlapped or Omitted using Focus Group Interview
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Jung Eun-Ju
Han Jung-Eun
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Abstract
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This study intends to provide the preliminary data to contribute to the improvement of the child and youth welfare policy by figuring out the problems of being overlapped or omitted from its benefits. It is based on the analysis of related former studies about social work for child and youth and focus group interviews of fieldworkers. The policy analysis of Gilbert and Terrell was examined to clarify the situation of overlapping or omitting in social services for child and youth. The major findings are as follows. The target age group is overlapped among the Child Welfare Law, Framework Act on Juveniles and so on. Each afterschool childcare administrated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, and Ministry of Education shows severe duplication in most of the details; benefits, target, service delivery system, budget, etc. Cultural experience service, multi-cultural family support and other counseling service has minor overlapping issues. On the other hand, the fieldworkers, who are working for child and youth welfare, pointed out that the omitting issue is more severe than the overlapping problem in their services. Since most of the services focus on children under the age of 12 in poverty, other children or juveniles in need of care tend to be seriously neglected by the system. Also, it is said that support for juveniles who have graduated high school, child and youth who do not attend school, youth centers, those receiving special care, family support and care services after 6p.m. or on weekends are relatively excluded. Therefore, the solutions are as follows. Cooperation and rearrangement among the departments of the government is needed about afterschool childcare. Further, opening hours of the services should be extended later into the night as well as the weekends. The regional differences among facilities for child and youth ought to be reduced, and the number of centers need to be increased. A budget to hire qualified professionals has to be a high priority.
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KEYWORD
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child and youth welfare, overlapping and omitting, focus group interview
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