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Child-Minders and Private Day Nurseries
Voluntary
Under the National Health Service Act, the Council provides a
service of approved child-minders who, in return for their willingness
to submit to supervision and the Councils requirements,
receive a registration fee of 6s. Od. per week whilst minding a child.
Children under the age of 5 years who do not attend school can
be accepted into a minder's home for daily care, the charges for
which are matters for agreement between the minder and the child's
parents. Under existing arrangements no child-minder is permitted
to care for more than two children at any one time and those who
desire to take more than this number are required to register as
statutory child-minders under the Nurseries and Child-Minders
Regulation Act, 1948, and are not eligible for registration fee.
Statutory
Any person who intends to undertake, for payment, the care in
her own home of more than two children under 5 years of age from
more than one household and to whom she is not closely related, or
to open a private day nursery must apply beforehand to the local
health authority for registration under the Nurseries and ChildMinders
Regulation Act, 1948. Registration is only necessary when
payment is made for these services.