Itabashi City ▸ Single-parent support ▸ Home Helper Dispatch for Single-parent Families
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Home helpers for housework and childcare sent to single-parent families

Home Helper Dispatch for Single-parent Families / Itabashi City
Home Helper Dispatch for Single-parent FamiliesItabashi CityChildren in elementary school or younger
Housework and childcare helpers for single-parent families
Helper dispatchUp to 8 times a monthUp to 4 hours per time (12 times a month for 6 months after becoming a single parent)
  • From 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
  • Share depends on income (waived for the first year)
Based on the official sourceKosodate Tokyo

This program sends home helpers to help with housework and childcare to single-parent families with children in elementary school or younger. You can use it when caring for your children or daily life becomes unmanageable because of work, attending school to get a qualification or job hunting, illness or injury, pregnancy, childbirth, or childcare leave, weddings or funerals, etc. You can ask for watching your children, taking them to and from daycare, school, Ai Kids, etc., simple meal help, cleaning, laundry, etc.

Helpers are sent from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., up to 4 hours per time, up to 2 times a day (within 8 hours), and up to 8 times a month (up to 12 times for the 6 months right after becoming a single parent). There is no income limit, but you pay a share depending on income. For 1 year from the month of your first use, your share is waived.

Nationality and residence status

The official page (checked in October 2026) sets no condition on nationality or residence status that we found. Eligibility follows the official conditions, not the language of this page; many programs require resident registration in the municipality.

Who is eligible

Single-parent families living in Itabashi City with children in elementary school or younger

Notes

Advance application and a dispatch decision are required. The approved period is from July 1 (or the date the dispatch was decided, if during the year) to June 30 of the following year.If you want to keep using it from July, apply again by June 30.You cannot ask for shopping, major cleaning, nursing care, pet care, etc. Meal help is simple preparation such as heating food.For consultation: Itabashi Welfare Division (03-3579-2322), Akatsuka Welfare Division (03-3938-5126), Shimura Welfare Division (03-3968-2331).

Official sources

Open the official page (Japanese)

Single-parent support in Itabashi City

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