View report page

Parent Guidance
The Area Committee recommended a scheme to deal with behaviour
problems in children under five, and the County Council agreed that
the North East and North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Boards
should be asked jointly to arrange for the employment, as an experiment,
of a psychiatrist for one session a week in this Area to advise medical
and health visiting staff in the method of helping parents of children
with behaviour problems and to deal with cases specially referred to
him.
Experimental Play Group for Children under Five
As an adjunct to the scheme for dealing with behaviour problems it
is further proposed to set up at Park Lane Clinic and Day Nursery
during 1955 an experimental "play group" where children with such
problems can mix and play with other children.
The scheme envisages the co-operation of the Child Guidance staff
and it is hoped to report progress at an early date.
Daily Guardian Scheme
The supervised daily minding of children under school age, whose
mothers are in full-time employment was established in this Area in
1947. It commenced very modestly with three married women who
were prepared to take into their own homes, children whose mothers
could not make any other satisfactory arrangements for minding by
the day.
Each guardian is paid one shilling a day for each child placed with
her, irrespective of payment received from the mother. There are no
retaining fees and payment commences after registration and evidence
of the receipt of the child. No guardian may accept more than two
72