Care fees

Burden of paying fees for both nursery school and sick child care

Fees for sick child care need to be paid in advance

Care service users have to pay the entire fee

Income is only barely sufficient for care fees

Anxiety about job insecurity

Being unable to take time off work

Continued work is difficult without sick child care

Need to consider what other employees at workplace think about the usage of sick child care

Difficulties perceived by children

Feeling uncomfortable being surrounded by people in the care facility

Children are reluctant to go to care facilities

Potential difficulties

Numbers of care facilities and children accepted by such facilities

Unavailable sick child care due to the limited number of care facilities

Unavailable sick child care due to an insufficient capacity to accept children

Age limit for utilizing sick child care

Age limit for utilizing sick child care

Infection

Anxiety due to the possibility that an individual’s child may be infected by other children

Anxiety due to the possibility that an individual’s child may spread their infectious disease to other children

Requests regarding sick child care

Requests that parents wanted to make to care facilities

Business hours

Desire for the earlier starting time of care services

Desire for the later ending time of care services

Number of days sick child care is available

Desire for the provision of care services on weekends

Capacity to accept children

Desire for an increase in the number of care staff members

Information provided for care service users

Desire for the introduction of care staff to service users

Reservation systems

Desire for efficient reservation systems

Requests regarding factors other than care facilities

Number of care facilities

Desire for an increase in the number of care facilities

Desire for sick child care facilities to be set up in the same location as nursery schools

Desire for every medical center to accept and look after sick children

Care fees

Desire for subsidies for care fees

Desire for the reduction of care fees according to the numbers of accepted children and days using care services

Information provided for those not using care service

Dissemination of sick child care facilities with a sufficient capacity

Content of care services