AN ACTUAL CONDITION SURVEY ON THE DECISION TO CLOSE A NURSERY SCHOOL IN THE EVENT OF STORM AND FLOOD DAMAGE

風水害時における保育所の休所実態を把握するため，2019年12月～2020年1月にかけて24都県の人口1万人以上の673基礎自治体保育担当部署を対象に，郵送回収方式にて所掌保育所での休所実施の有無，休所規定の制定状況等についてアンケート調査を行った．対象自治体は近年，風水害被害を受けた都県を中心に抽出し，378自治体（回収率56％）から回答を得た．風水害時に保育所を休所させる規定があるのは61自治体（16％）で，この内，2018年又は2019年に被災した自治体のうち，13自治体で規定が設けられていた．しかし，現時点では風水害時の休所規定がある自治体は少数であり，災害危険性が高まった時に保育所の休所判断をできるためには，社会的合意の形成が必要である．Most of the nursery schools, which are employment support facilities, are open even when storm and flood damage is predicted. The reason for this is that it is the principle that the nursery school is opening, when a disaster is likely to occur. On the other hand, in recent heavy rain disasters, delay in evacuation exposed children and nursery school staff to dangerous situations in some cases. Therefore, in order to understand the actual situation that a nursery school is opening during a disaster, we conducted a quatuinnarie survey for the childcare departments of 673 municipalities with a population of 10,000 or more in 24 prefectures. Only 16% of the local governments decide to close the nursery school when the disaster risk increases. In order to improve the degree of disaster safety of nursery schools, it is necessary to form a social consensus that the nursery schools may be closed during a disaster