사회서비스분야 자격의 활성화 방안

Abstract

공공행정, 교육, 복지, 의료 등 사회서비스 분야 자격의 활성화를 통해 해당 서비스의 소비자 신뢰성을 확보하여 시장을 확대하고, 서비스 제공자에게 국가자격 등 공신력있는 자격을 부여하여 전문직업인으로서 자긍심을 갖게 함으로써, 궁극적으로 대국민 서비스의 질을 효과적으로 향상시킬 수 있다. 요양보호, 사회복지, 발달장애 및 재활 관련 등의 보건·의료서비스와 학습지도, 상담, 영재교육, 영유아 돌봄 등의 교육서비스 그리고 행정관리, 정책분석평가, 산업위생지도 등의 공공행정서비스 분야의 자격제도 개선과 신설을 추진할 정책 방안을 제시하였다. ○ 주요내용 - 사회서비스 노동시장과 고용동향 및 자격현황 - 해외 주요국 사회서비스 분야 고용지원정책 및 추진 동향 - 사회서비스분야 산업 및 직업동향 - 사회서비스분야 미국, 일본 자격운영 현황 - 사회서비스분야 자격운영 문제점 및 개선방안, 정책제언

Social services comprising public administration, education, welfare, medical care, etc, which are regarded as service areas to promote personal & social welfare and life quality, has been dealt with important areas to create job. However, our no. of jobs in service area are quite small comparing to advanced countries such as U.S,, U.K., France, Japan, and so on. Under consideration of this issue Korea government planed to invest 1 trillion Won to create 280,000 jobs focusing on 5 promising fields of service in health and welfare by 2014. In addition to this plan the some of qualifications including Speech-language Pathologist will be entitled as national qualification in terms of manpower raising and quality control of social service from the viewpoint of expanding infrastructure of social service. The purposes of introducing national qualification items in social service are as fellows: first, to prepare preconditions to expand service market by securing customer's credibility, second, to get qualification holder have self-esteem as professional, which would be linked to upgrade social status, third, to improve the service quality to the public effectively. This study has suggested plan to reform private qualification items which have been needed to become national qualification items by conducting the analysis of domestic and foreign qualification items, as well as, to make new national and private qualification items including subordinated plan to improve existing private qualification items in the area of social service . Going into details, this study prepared policy measures to improve and create qualification items in following areas: first, health and medical areas focusing on recreational therapy, social welfare, development disability, and rehabilitation, etc., second, educational areas including learning instruction, counselling, talented education, infant and young children care, etc., third, public administration areas such as administrative management, policy analysis and evaluation, industry hygiene instruction, etc,