Out-of-school care supervisor is bottleneck profession
In Flanders, many employees and sometimes jobseekers are involved in supervising and caring for school-age children outside school hours.
The job of 'school-age child carer' has several bottlenecks in terms of workability. The (involuntary) part-time contracts and 'broken' shifts and working hours that are often not compatible with having a family of one's own are factors that make the job less attractive.
This has far-reaching consequences: the sector has been sounding the alarm for some time because of a shortage of counsellors. As a result of this shortage, the development of much-needed care and leisure initiatives for school-age children is under pressure. This is problematic as the use of out-of-school care is increasing.
Job supervisor extracurricular innovation
The objective of the DuJo project is to challenge, rethink and innovate the job supervisor school-age children in function of quality out-of-school care and workable work.
The DuJo project will be carried out using the methodology of human-centred design. Through field research, we will generate new ideas to innovate the job of supervising schoolchildren. The project aims to develop a renewed concept for school-age child carers that has added value for the children and parents as well as for the carers.
Central questions are:
- How is the job of supervising school-age children organised today?
- What are push and pull factors to perform this job?
- What are possible levers to organise this job differently?
- Does collaboration between different sectors or promoters offer opportunities to rethink the organisation of work?
- What does this mean for the supervisors themselves?
Partners
VBJK is promoter in this project, VCOK and Arteveldehogeschool are project partners.
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