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Daily Guardian Scheme
This scheme, by which working and other special categories
of mothers are assisted in finding suitable daily minders for
their children, operates exceedingly well. In spite of a certain
wastage in daily guardians, the number of women who offer their
services, considerably exceeds the present demand. At the end of
1952 there were 161 daily guardians on the register of whom 76
were minding 88 children. The number of individual children
minded during the year was 148 and they were in the care of
guardians for 18,876 days. These figures compare with 129 and
15,710 respectively for 1951. Health Visitors undertake to
approve guardians for registration and are responsible for vigilance
in seeing that the scheme's safeguards are carried out.
Day Nurseries
The County Council's new policy on the admission of children
to day nurseries and the charges for admission, which came into
operation on the 1st December, had the effect of drastically reducing
the numbers on the registers and the daily attendances by
the end of the year. The following table shows the number of
children on the registers at the end of the year and the attendances
during the year. Comparative totals for 1951 are also
shown.