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Day Nurseries
There continues to be a demand for places for children in the highest
priority groups and each of the Council's seven day nurseries has a
waiting list.
Plans have been approved for a new day nursery in the White City
Estate area, which will provide a further thirty-five places; and a
replacement for Mulgrave Road Day Nursery is to be built, providing an
extra thirty places.
The total attendances made during the year were 88,793.
Nurseries & Child Minders Regulations Act, 1948, as amended by the
Health Services & Public Health Act, 1968
Although the work of registration of child minders has continued
steadily, the total number of minders has not greatly increased. This is
because many mothers stop minding when their own children reach school
age. Consequently, the demand for child minders exceeds the supply. At
the end of the year there were 255 registered minders in the Borough,
caring for 523 children under the age of five.
Occasional Creches
Sessions have continued at Glenthorne Road and Greyhound Road Child
Health Centres.
The total attendances at the Council creches were 6,806.
Play Groups
The play group movement has continued to expand; some premises are now
used for both morning and afternoon groups. The number of children benefitting
from this activity has therefore increased. Parents take a lively
interest in the groups and mothers give a great deal of practical help in
the everyday organisation. The nursing officers and health visitors have
continued to give encouragement and advice and have also participated in
courses of training for play group leaders, Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven
children were members of 14 groups at the end of the year and consideration
is being given to the registration of another 4 groups,
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