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Visitors were responsible for a like service in respect of all
registered Child Minders. The standard of care was found to be
extremely high and the Play Group Leaders and Child Minders
were always ready to seek help and advice.

Each month there are approximately 4 applications from prospective Play Group leaders and an average of 15 to 18 for registration
as child minders.
Further expansion took place in the Council's sponsorship
scheme in respect of medically and socially necessitous children
in Day Nurseries and when these children attended regularly
there was invariably a marked improvement in health and social
adjustment.
Supervisors of these Private Day Nurseries were particularly
most sympathetic in their handling of handicapped children and
the scheme has illustrated the benefit of integrating the physically
or mentally handicapped child with its normal peers at an early
age. In these circumstances, as each child offers help to the other
it fosters a caring attitude and an acceptance of limitations that
is so essential if both are to live amicably in the adult world. This
is of special relevance now that modern medical techniques are
likely to enable the handicapped to survive into old age.
The successful holiday Play Centre at the Beverley School for
the Deaf was repeated during the summer holiday and was again
staffed by Social Workers (School Health Service) aided by parents and other volunteers.
Occasional Creche Service
Five occasional creches are held at four Child Health centres
and these have proved to be very worthwhile. They are held once
a week (one centre has two crches, each held weekly) where
children under five years are cared for while their mothers attend
sessions at the centre, keep hospital appointments, or go shop-