- The following is content from the press release -
(Head office: Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Yoshinori Koike), which provides various services including CoDMON, an ICT tool for child facilities such as nursery schools, kindergartens, school children, schools, and elementary schools, and Tokyo College of Social Welfare (Edogawa-ku, Tokyo; Principal: Kazuhiro Kobayashi), have signed a comprehensive collaboration agreement as of July 8: (headquartered in Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo; Yoshinori Koike, President), which provides various services including CoDMON, an ICT tool for children's facilities such as primary and elementary schools, concluded a comprehensive collaboration agreement on July 8.
Background of the Comprehensive Collaborative Agreement
Jikei Gakuen Tokyo College of Social Welfare and Kodomon Co., Ltd. will collaborate with the aim of improving the environment surrounding children and making strategic improvements through mutual cooperation, with a view to industry-academia-government collaboration. This agreement was concluded based on the strong mutual understanding between Tokyo College of Social Welfare's desire to "train students who aspire to become childcare workers and realize childcare workplaces where childcare workers can be active for a long time" and Kodomo's desire to "give all teachers the time and mental space to deal with children".
Specific Efforts
1. matters related to securing future childcare human resources (activities to secure childcare providers for students in junior high schools, high schools, etc.)
We will work to increase interest in the childcare industry and the profession of childcare worker at the early stage of junior high and high school students' education. We will provide accurate information on the challenges of childcare, job descriptions, ICT in the childcare industry, benefits for childcare workers, and the current state of wage improvement at open campuses of training schools and classes at junior high schools and high schools.
We will also create an environment for junior high and high school students to volunteer at childcare centers and gain work experience to convey the appeal and reality of childcare as a profession.
2. childcare human resource development and job placement support (provide education on ICT and childcare quality, and job placement)
The program is designed to raise awareness of "childcare ICT" among students who will be responsible for the future of childcare, and based on examples of ICT introduction, to properly learn about the effects of reducing the workload of childcare workers and the operations of introduced preschools, and to develop human resources capable of putting this into practice after they enter the workforce. In addition, through "Hoisil," a facility information website operated by Codomon Co., Ltd. that introduces the attractiveness and features of daycare centers nationwide, we will support job hunting activities of students who aspire to become childcare providers.
3. information sharing related to the field of childcare (student awareness surveys/questionnaires)
We will periodically survey students on their awareness of the childcare industry. The results of the survey will be used to improve class content, and will also be compiled into a report to be shared with childcare facilities to help create a comfortable working environment in the childcare industry.
4. matters related to reforming the work style of childcare and child welfare facility employees (training for students and current childcare workers)
We provide training for childcare students and current childcare workers to prepare them for long-term employment. For childcare students, we provide online and other training programs that enable them to envision their careers as childcare workers with a long-term perspective. For graduates who are currently working as childcare workers, we will also create a community of childcare workers centered on training schools and hold meetings to exchange opinions on the quality of childcare and working styles. We will also provide a forum where graduates can take the initiative in sharing information with childcare students.
Jikei Gakuen Tokyo College of Social Welfare
◆Location: 5-10-32 Nishi-Kasai, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo
◆School Director: Kazuhiro Kobayashi
◆Opened: April 1989
Department: Social Welfare, Psychological Counselor, General Social Worker Training, General Mental Health Worker Training, Care Worker, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Evening Course, Child Daycare, Child Daycare Evening Course, Career Design, International Welfare Business (as of April 2021)
◆School HP:https://www.tcw.ac.jp/
About Tokyo College of Social Welfare
The Jikei Gakuen Group operates 73 vocational schools throughout Japan with the mission of contributing to society through professional education by practicing the Group's common educational philosophy of "practical education," "human education," and "international education.
Opened in 1989, Tokyo College of Social Welfare is a training facility for social workers, mental health workers, care workers, occupational therapists, and childcare workers, and has produced some 20,000 graduates in the fields of welfare, childcare, and medical personnel.
The Department of Child Care and Education holds a weekly "Children's Classroom" where students who aspire to become child caregivers interact with children from 0 years old to preschool age on campus. The class is not only a place for students to practice what they have learned in class, but also serves as a center for childcare in the community.
Codomon Corporation Company Profile
Location: 3F Mita 43MT Building, 3-13-13 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo
◆Capital: 68,250,000 yen
Representative: Yoshinori Koike, Representative Director
◆Business description: Development and provision of childcare operation support systems, used by approximately 8,000 facilities and 140,000 childcare workers nationwide as of April 2021. 119 municipalities nationwide have decided to introduce the system and introduce demonstration experiments. No. 1 in terms of market share in terms of number of introduced facilities, number of facilities with local government introductions, and number of local governments with contracts (surveyed by Tokyo Shoko Research, Inc. in January 2021).
Reference: April 1, 2020: 37,652 day-care centers nationwide, including specified area-type day-care businesses
◆Service HP:https://www.codmon.com/
About Codomon Co.
Codomon offers "CoDMON," a SaaS*1 of childcare ICT, which is a variety of support tools for staff and parents working in childcare facilities such as nursery schools, kindergartens, school children, and elementary schools, to help them have more time to deal with children.
It supports the creation of an environment that enhances the quality of childcare while greatly reducing the workload of teachers through functions such as smart recording of growth records and teaching plans linked to preschooler information, management of arrival and departure from preschool, and communication support functions with parents. At the same time, we provide solutions that enable integrated management of ICT/IoT environments in preschools, including API linkage with IoT devices such as baby sensors. In addition to the communication function with the facility, the parent application provides services such as child growth management, photo albums, and daycare fee payment.
Not limited to ICT support alone, we also offer services such as "Codomon Store," an e-commerce service for childcare facilities, and "Sensei Prime," a preferential program for employees of childcare facilities available to all employees of childcare facilities.
1 SaaS is a system that provides application software functions to customers through a network as needed.
Ltd., which provides CoDMON, a childcare ICT tool that is being introduced to local governments nationwide and is actively working with various monitoring devices, has concluded a comprehensive collaboration agreement with Tokyo College of Social Welfare, Jikei Gakuen Educational Corporation, with a view to securing and training future childcare personnel and reforming work styles. Let's take a look at the release.