In an effort to provide working parents with more childcare options, Singapore´s Ministry of Community Development and Sports (MCDS) has announced that it plans to expand the number of infant and childcare facilities to 3,000 centers by 2009. Currently, there are about 670 childcare centers in Singapore, with only 25 centers offering infant care services. By April 2005, the MCDS would like to have at least 600 infant care centers alone. The Ministry is hoping that these new measures will alleviate some of the burden on working parents who are seeking professional care providers for their infants and children during the workday.
In a marriage and parenthood survey conducted by the MCDS between July 2003 and February 2004, the majority of the 6,000 Singaporeans surveyed prefer to use childcare centers as a childcare option, rather than in-home childcare workers. Additionally, the majority of respondents also prefer that childcare centers be close to their homes, rather than their workplace. This preference contrasts with working parents in Japan, where the majority of working parents prefer to take their child to a daycare center at their place of work, leading more and more Japanese companies to invest in on-site child care centers.
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