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題 名 | 五都十七縣後的兒童安全挑戰=Challenges of Child Safety after the Local Governments Were Subdivided into 5 Special Municipalities and 17 Counties/Cities |
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作 者 | 林月琴; | 書刊名 | 社區發展季刊 |
卷 期 | 134 2011.06[民100.06] |
頁 次 | 頁54-66 |
專 輯 | 五都升格(整併)後的社會福利 |
分類號 | 547.51 |
關鍵詞 | 兒童安全; 事故傷害; 兒少福利; 兒少安全; 兒少福利預算; 福利服務支出; 中央與地方; 治理權限; 權限劃分; 資源分配; 五都十七縣; |
語 文 | 中文(Chinese) |
中文摘要 | 五都十七縣的改制雖是國家重要政治變革,但可想而知其前提絕非出自以兒童為本體所考量的變革,因此,社會福利界當有必要預行準備,保障兒童在這波變革中的權益。尤其在以弱勢家庭、兒少保護為顯學的當前兒童福利趨勢中,針對兒童基本安全權益保障的討論相對缺乏,兒童安全在這波變革中,也面臨到諸多挑戰。 自1992年健康幼稚園遊覽車火燒車事故發生以來,政府雖逐年重視兒童安全議題,但時至今日,事故傷害仍嚴重威脅兒童安全、兒少福利預算也缺乏投資性觀點,政府幾乎未編列兒少安全相關預算。在中央與地方的關係中,中央政府的政策到地方執行端仍有許多落差,地方政府在財源上卻又過於仰賴中央。在五都十七縣的現實下,城鄉差距擴大,兒童安全法規一國多制的情形可能更嚴重,而因富都首長受制民意、窮縣需求被邊緣化之故,富都窮縣可能皆難推動兒童安全。 筆者透過長期觀察,建議中央應提高兒童及少年安全相關政策及法令的層級,適度調節縣市間資源分配,推動跨轄區合作計畫,以使兒童安全議題不致在這波政治變革中被其他議題淹沒。 |
英文摘要 | The local governments were subdivided into five special municipalities and seventeen counties/cities has been an important change for public government. However, this transformation was aiming at administrative optimization and did not address the child rights and benefits. Therefore, the social welfare sector must be watchful to protect and improve children benefit during this important change. Moreover, the general tendency in child welfare field is to focus on disadvantaged families and child protection. Compared with those two subjects, there is a lack about child safety issue in the discussion. This topic also faces big challenges. In 1992 the Jiankang kindergarten had field trip with a tour bus. During the trip there was an accident in which the bus caught fire; 23 persons died. Although the government is beginning to care about child safety since then, children are still threatened by all kind of injuries. The budget for the safety of children and teenagers is small for various reasons: the central government and the local administration have different policies and priorities for spending money and local governments are too dependent on central sources of income. Furthermore, there is a widening gap between rich cities and poor rural areas; in rich cities the politics are driven by public opinion - so usually the money is not spent on child safety. In rural areas there is not enough money in the first place, so it is not spent on child safety, neither. Therefore, both rich and poor areas hardly spent money to promote child safety. After observing these issues for a long time, we would like to suggest that the central government strengthens policies and laws about child safety. Moreover, there should be changes in the allocation of resources to allow cooperation and solidarity between cities and countryside so that the issue of child safety can not be neglected. |
本系統中英文摘要資訊取自各篇刊載內容。