Consumer Affairs Committee, Children's Committee, Chief Children's Committee

Local welfare officers and children's committees are local consultants.
We provide consultation on concerns and concerns, such as family and life, and help solve problems, such as "connecting" to related organizations as necessary. In addition, various activities such as watching over the elderly living alone, cooperation with related organizations that respond to consultations with the elderly living alone, local salons, food distribution services for the elderly, etc., so that everyone can live in the area where they live. Activities.
※Since the activities of the Consumer Affairs Committee and the Children's Committee may enter the private life of individuals, confidentiality is imposed on the information obtained through the activities.

• The Consumer Affairs Committee is a part-time local government employee commissioned by the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare based on the Consumer Affairs Committee Act.
• The local welfare officer also serves as a children's committee stipulated in the Child Welfare Law.
• The term of office is three years (reappointment is possible) and works as an unpaid volunteer. (Necessary expenses (fixed amount) such as transportation expenses, communication expenses, and training participation fees are paid.)
• Yokohama City has one member of the local welfare committee for every 200 to 440 households. In the ward, approximately 280 local welfare officers and children's committees are recommended by the Neighborhood Association Neighborhood Associations and others.

• The Chief Children's Committee is a local welfare officer and children's committee specializing in matters related to elementary school studenｔ, such as children and child care. Depending on the content of the consultation, we provide consultation support in cooperation with local welfare officers and children's committees, the government, schools, and children's guidance office.
• In the ward, about 30 chief children's committees are working on recommended by the Union Neighborhood Associations.

We conduct visits to safety confirmation for the elderly and to watch over the elderly.

We provide consultation on the concerns and concerns of local residents, connect to specialized organizations as necessary, and provide information on welfare services.

We work on salon activities for the elderly and child-rearing families.

In addition to cooperating with local events, we support local welfare activities in cooperation with various organizations such as the Neighborhood Association Neighborhood Associations, Community Care Plaza, the Japan National Council of Social Welfare, ward offices, and other organizations.

We issue surveys on matters that can be confirmed, such as "facts of livelihoods" related to pension, such as survivors' pensions, and "dependence facts" to certify dependents.

Investigations that can be conducted by local welfare officers and children's committees are limited, and items that are difficult to prove or confirm facts cannot be handled.
For requests such as "unemployed / unpaid income proof", a "survey on the fact of dependent facts" will be issued based on the interview survey of the client.
In addition, about no income, we cannot prove as member of local welfare committee.

When you want to know local welfare officer, children's committee, chief children's committee in charge of area, please refer to ward office Health and Welfare Division.
Kanazawa Ward Health and Welfare Division Administration Planning Section
Phone number: 045-788-7820

All local welfare officers and children's committees belong to the Consumer Affairs Committee Children's Committee (abbreviated as "Minjikyo") and are active.

In ward, there are 16 district welfare committee children's committee meetings, and we perform various approaches so that local resident can live in peace according to the local situation.

All local welfare officers and children's committees in the ward become members and organize, and for the purpose of logistical support of members, we perform communication coordination between district children's cooperatives and work to improve the quality of local welfare officers and children's committees.

Once a month, the chairman and vice chairman of the district children's association and representatives of the ward chief children's committee liaison meeting gather to coordinate and coordinate with the district children's cooperative and related organizations.

All the chief children's committees in the city gather and hold regular meetings once a month to discuss and coordinate activities, and independent businesses.

We set up training planning sectional meeting and plan, holding training for improvement of qualities of local welfare officer, children's committee and training of lecture for inhabitants of a ward.

The Public Relations Editorial Subcommittee has been set up and a public relations magazine is published once a year.