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Those who take care of new children
Last Updated December 3, 2024
Announcement from Sakae Ward Education and Childcare Staff
① Those who apply for admission in January 2025
Deadline: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
*Various application documents can be downloaded from "To those who wish to use nursery schools in 2024".
*Number of nursery schools in Sakae Ward
[Sakae Ward Version] Number of applicants scheduled for January 1, 2025 (PDF: 123KB) (as of December 1, 2024)
*Number of people who can accept each garden in all wards of the city, etc.
Admission status of daycare centers
② Those who wish to use nursery schools, etc. in 2025
Usage guide (city version), required documents, etc.
○ To those who wish to use nursery schools, etc. in 2025 (Yokohama City page)
Please check the usage guide (city version) and required documents here.
[Primary Application]
Application acceptance was finished on Wednesday, November 6, 2024.
※Only the addition, order change, and missing documents of the desired garden have been accepted until November 28, 2024 (Thursday) (postmark valid).
※The results of usage adjustment will be announced by the beginning of February 2025.
[In case of job offer]
・If you decide on a job in the primary use adjustment, you will not be eligible for secondary use adjustment.
・If you decline the job offer, you will not be able to apply for a secondary application.
<In exceptional cases where a secondary application is possible> (It is necessary to submit a set of documents again.)
①If you wish to use the same sibling facility or business
②In the case of relocation (requires to decline a job offer)
※①If you decide on a secondary use adjustment, you will not be able to use the garden that has been decided in the primary use adjustment.
[In case of pending]
・If it is suspended due to the primary use adjustment, it will be automatically subject to secondary use adjustment.
・If there is a change from the primary application (such as a change in the desired garden or a change in the reason for needing childcare), please submit the required documents by the secondary application deadline.
[Secondary Application]
Application period: Must arrive from January 6, Reiwa 7 (Mon) to February 10, 2017 (Mon)
※The results of usage adjustment will be announced around March 10, 2025.
Usage guide (Sakae Ward version) and number of applicants
・Information on application acceptance (PDF: 295KB)
・Number of applicants scheduled for April 1, 2025 (PDF: 129KB) (as of October 11, 2024)
・List of nursery schools and kindergartens in 2025 (PDF: 198KB)
・2025 nursery school, kindergarten map (PDF: 9,181KB)
・Guidance of pre-birth application (PDF: 817KB)
○ We held briefings for those who wish to enter the park at each nursery school in Sakae Ward.
・Briefing session for admission applicants (move to another page)
When applying for a nursery school
○In each garden, we perform childcare based on each childcare policy.
When applying
・Childcare Policy
・The atmosphere of the facility
・Whether or not to pick up a car
・Response to allergies, chronic diseases, etc.
・Expenses other than basic childcare fees
・How to use extended childcare and Saturday childcare
・Frequency of parental participation events
Please check it.
○ For a tour of the facility, please contact the facility directly.
For those who are looking for childcare facilities in Yokohama
Introduces "10 ways to select good childcare facilities".
③ Those who wish to use kindergartens, etc. in 2025
○ For those who wish to use kindergartens, etc. in 2025 (Yokohama City page)
Please check the usage guide (city version) and required documents here.
Please refer to each facility directly about the use of kindergartens and procedure after admission.
1 Use of daycare centers, etc.
In order to use nursery schools, you need to apply for certification and use of benefits to Children and Families Support Division in your ward.
For details, please refer to the following page.
For those who wish to use nursery schools, etc. in 2024
For those who wish to use nursery schools, etc. in 2025
※ Nursery schools, etc.: Facilities and businesses such as licensed nursery schools, certified child institution (childcare use), home-based childcare business, small-scale childcare business, and in-house childcare business (regional frame)
※ Please apply for the following facilities directly to the facility.
・Yokohama Nursery Room
*You need to apply for benefits certification to Children and Families Support Division in your district.
・Non-licensed childcare facilities
*In order to be eligible for free of charge, it is necessary to apply for certification to Children and Families Support Division in your ward.
About application for certification of free benefits for those who use non-licensed childcare facilities, etc.
・Company-led childcare facilities
*In order to be eligible for free of charge, you may need to apply for certification to Children and Families Support Division in your ward.
Application for use of children who need individual support
Please contact us in advance if you wish to apply for a nursery school for children with disabilities, children who are worried about development, or children who need individual support or medical considerations.
Consultation Service: 25th window on the 2nd floor of the ward office main building
Usage adjustment
Yokohama-shi performs adjustment such as available nursery schools from nursery schools that protector wants.
In adjustment, we perform rank judgment based on "standard about Yokohama-shi payment authorization and use adjustment" and judge priority.
Standards for Yokohama City Benefit Authorization and Use Adjustment
How to apply
We explain application method and schedule of nursery schools in an easy-to-understand manner in about 10 minutes.
To the employer, etc. who creates a work certificate
About work certificate to submit to Yokohama-shi
For those on hold
▪ Application is valid within the year.
▪ Procedures are required if you wish to add or change the garden, or if you want to withdraw your application.
Please come to the Sakae Ward Office No. 25, or send us the "registration form (PDF: 845KB)".
※ Please contact your employer or Hello Work for procedures for childcare leave benefits.
For those who apply to daycare centers outside the city or those who apply from outside the city
required documents, application location, application deadline, etc. (PDF: 83KB)
Documents required depending on the situation of the household
Divorce Presence Separation Petition (PDF: 113KB)
2 Use of kindergartens, etc.
▪ For use of kindergartens, please contact each facility directly.
▪ After admission, please receive the necessary documents for the certification application from the facility and submit it to the facility.
▪ When application documents are submitted to ward office from facility and are authorized, ward office sends "benefit authorization decision letter of advice" to protector.
Parents should present this to the facility and sign a usage contract.
For those who wish to use kindergartens, etc. in 2024
For those who wish to use kindergartens, etc. in 2025
※ Kindergarten, etc.: Kindergarten, Certified Children's Center (for Educational Use), Special Needs School Kindergarten
※ Some kindergartens and certified children's schools carry out "custody childcare" that conducts educational activities for children before and after educational hours. . It can be used for reasons such as sudden errands or employment of parents.
Since the implementation status of "custody childcare" differs depending on each garden, please contact each garden directly for usage and fees.
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Inquiries to this page
Sakae Ward Health and Welfare Center Children and Families Support Division
Telephone: 045-894-8463
Telephone: 045-894-8463
Fax: 045-894-8406
Email address: sa-kodomokatei@city.yokohama.jp
Page ID: 850-107-168