Kashiwa City Community Newspaper 2020.02.15

Have you completed your application to receive children’s early education and day care free of charge?

Contact: Information service for free day care - Phone: 7128-6881

Nursery School Administration Division - Phone: 7167-1137, Fax: 7164-0741

Beginning on Wednesday, April 1, a new benefit to make children’s day care free of charge will be available. In order to receive this benefit, you must receive approval for a “Facility Usage Benefit” in March. Approval for the benefit, and the maximum benefit amount will depend on the facility you are using, and the circumstances of your household.

Eligible household circumstances

• 1 = Households struggling with childcare in the case of both parents working, illness, pregnancy, etc. (There is a necessity for child day care.)
• 2 = Households with a stay-at-home parent. (There is not a necessity for child day care.)

Please complete your application for free day care as soon as possible

The “Facility Usage Benefit” is obtained through an application for approval for the eligibility to receive child day care free of charge, and is separate from the nursery school entrance application that is already being used. To confirm the deadline for the Facility Usage Benefit application, please contact the facility you are using.

For application forms, and other information, please visit the Kashiwa City website.

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Facility	Household Circumstances	Child’s Classification	Maximum amount of day care fees covered by benefit (monthly) -Note 1	Application for free day care
Authorized Nursery Schools, Authorized Kodomo En Day Care (Type 2 and 3), Small-Scale Day Care Facilities, day care within places of employment, home-operated day care centers, home-visit day care services	1	Children age 0 to 2 from households exempt from municipal tax	Full amount	Not required
		Children age 3 to 5
Authorized Kodomo En Day Care (Type 1)	2	Children age 3, and from age 3 to 5
Kindergartens (facilities eligible for private school subsidy)			25700 yen	Facility Usage Benefit Type 1 Approval
Kindergartens (other than those above)			Full amount	Not required
After-hours child-minding at kindergartens and Authorized Kodomo En Day Care Centers	1	Children age 3 to 5	11300 yen	Facility Usage Benefit Type 2 Approval
		Children age 3 from households exempt from municipal tax	16300 yen	Facility Usage Benefit Type 3 Approval
Facilities other than authorized day care facilities -Note 2		Children age 0 to 2 from households exempt from municipal tax	42000 yen
		Children age 3 to 5	37000 yen	Facility Usage Benefit Type 2 Approval

• Note 1: The benefit to provide free day care only covers the monthly day care usage fees. It does not cover the cost of lunches and activities (fees and programs will be different for each facility).
• Note 2: Facilities that report to the city, other than authorized day care facilities (Kashiwa City Authorized Day Care Rooms, temporary day care services, Family Support Center programs, babysitters, etc.)

Test broadcast of the emergency broadcast system

Contact: Disaster Prevention and Safety Division – Phone: 7167-1115

A test broadcast will be done on Wednesday, February 19 at 11:00am. The broadcast will be done simultaneously from 190 points across the city.

Broadcast content

Chime → “This is a test of J-alert” (broadcast 3 times) → “This is Disaster Prevention Kashiwa” → Chime

Other

• The test broadcast may be cancelled depending on the weather, or if a disaster occurs.
• The broadcast may be done at the same time in neighboring cities.

Japan-China cultural exchange class

Contact: Cross-Cultural Center – Phone: 7157-0281

Date and time

Saturday, March 14, 1:00pm to 2:30pm

Place

Palette Kashiwa

Number of spaces available

The first 100 people to register may join the class.

Event details

Ikebana traditional flower arranging demonstration, informational lecture on the past, present and future of Japan-China international exchange.

Registration

From Monday, February 17, please register with the following information.

1. The name of the event you would like to attend
2. Your postal code and address
3. Name
4. Age
5. Phone number (please use your fax number if you have difficulty using the phone)

Please send the registration information by email to the Cross-Cultural Center (boshu-2@kira-kira.jp), or register in person.