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A Day Observation Unit is being
run in association with the Paediatric
Department, Wandsworth
Health Department, Wandsworth
Social Services Department and
the Inner London Education
Authority. (See under Day
Observation Unit, Blackshaw Road).
A Paediatric Registrar undertakes
a weekly clinical session in the
Tooting Child Health Centre.
A Physiotherapist from the
Paediatric Department attends the
Special Care Unit attached to the
Summerley Day Nursery.
Further association with the Paediatric Departments of these
hospitals is in the planning stage. The recognition that the
assessment of a handicapped child is but the beginning of an
on-going process of planning for his follow-up, both immediate
and long-term and requiring the specialist knowledge of the
hospital paediatrician and the doctor familiar with the facilities
in the community, is one of the most important facets of child
care today.
Medical students, hospital nurses and administrative staff
continue to attend the local authority clinics and schools to
gain experience of the facilities which cater for all children
who live in the community.
Day Observation Unit, Blackshaw Road, S.W.17.
A new day unit for the informal assessment of handicapped
children was opened in May 1972 at 177 Blackshaw Road. Preschool
children are accepted who require observation for a period
lasting from a few weeks to six months in a nursery setting
before their physical, intellectual or psychological problems can
be evaluated.
The unit, which is for eight children, is attached to a children's
residential home and is a combined project run by the Social
Services Department, the Hospital Service, Wandsworth Health
Department and the I.L.E.A. Recommendation for admission can,
therefore, come from a number of sources but the unit is under the