management regulations in Taiwan stipulate that playground facilities
may follow national and international standards such as CNS, America's
ASTM, the regional standard EN, and ISO, but most inspection bodies
in Taiwan accredited by TAF only certify CNS- or ASTM-compliant
facilities. As a result, playground designers and manufacturers who
introduce playground facilities that meet EN or ISO standards are not
able to obtain inspection reports that comply with the regulations.
117. The NHRC, based on the Control Yuan investigation report 89 and
discussions with government agencies, learned that the Ministry of
Culture (MOC) and the MOE have subsidized the production of
children's programs. The MOE provided a total of more than NT$ 60
million in subsidies for children's program production from 2018-2020,
accounting for nearly 20% of the broadcasting budget. Meanwhile, the
MOE awarded over $35 million in subsidies from 2017-2020. The
report, however, points out that aside from children's channels on
satellite TV, domestically produced children's programs on broadcast
TV's and satellite TV's generalist channels account for only 6.53% and
2.29% of the total broadcast hours in Taiwan.
118. Recommendations:
(1) Agencies that provide guidance and inspection of playground
facilities should expeditiously increase the number of vendors
that can perform inspection following EN and ISO standards,
and urge city/county governments to improve and inspect
playgrounds through giving guidance to the entities that
construct the playgrounds, in order to comprehensively examine
these spaces. The Government should also raise awareness of the
CRC among playground facility designers so that design
stakeholders understand and value the diverse developmental
needs of children with different physical and mental capacity to
fulfill their right to play. The NHRC also calls on the
Government to promote the right of children of all mental and
physical capacities to participate and make decisions in the
planning, design, development, implementation and monitoring
of policies.
(2) In terms of children's programs, NHRC expects the Government
to not only subsidize domestically self-produced programs, but
also expand the diversity of program genres so that they include
89
The Control Yuan investigation report approved on May 13, 2021. (Children’s Program)
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