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full day care to ensure that satisfactory care was being given, also to observe and
offer help.
The scheme for providing financial assistance to playgroups in connection with
the acceptance of a quota of priority class children was continued and in the financial
year 1970-71 a grant of £2,000 was made to the Inner London Pre-School Playgroups
Association in respect of affiliated playgroups. Grants totalling £677 were
also made to nine non-affiliated playgroups. In cases of financial difficulty the Council
met the fees of playgroups or childminders for the reception of priority class children.
Fourteen private nurseries or playgroups were registered by the Council under the
Nurseries and Child Minders Regulations Act 1948 during the year. At the end of
the year there were 59 registered nurseries or groups authorised to provide whole
or part day care for up to 1,401 children.
The coming into force of the penal clause of Section 60 of the Health Services
and Public Health Act 1968 still involved a heavy volume of work in the registration
of women who had been minding one or two children, for which registration was
not previously necessary. Altogether, during the year, 186 persons were registered
for the minding of up to 330 children. At the end of the year there were 482 registered
minders authorised to provide whole day care for up to 954 children.

In July 1970 the Borough was divided into two areas for the domiciliary family
planning service with bases at the Speedwell Street and Boundfield Road health
centres.
A Family Planning Association trained health visitor from each of these clinics
spends one session per week visiting patients in conjunction with the doctor.
It is encouraging to note that patients are being referred from an ever-widening
range of the personal services within the Borough.