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Private Day Nurseries and Registered Child Minders
98
During the year a large number of applications for registration under the Health Services
and Public Health Act 1968 were received, particularly from prospective child minders
wishing to receive one or 2 children, and visits were made to these applicants by the
nursing officers who submitted reports on the home conditions and suitability of the person
concerned.
The number of private day nurseries and play groups remained at the level of the previc
year.
A new course was mounted by Barnet College of Further Education in January, which
provides training for potential play group supervisors, and some of the supervisors of
well established play groups have also benefited from attendance at the course. It operate
on a one day a week basis during the full academic year and is held at Holly Park School.
A nursing officer has attended on several occasions to talk about registration procedures.
At the end of the year there were 43 registered child minders and 70 private day
nurseries.
Clinics for the Elderly
A total of 54 sessions were held at West Hendon and Watling (Edgware) clinics and
1118 attendances made.
Chiropody
The number of persons treated continued to increase. Treatment is provided througn a
directly operated domiciliary and clinic scheme in the former Middlesex part of the Borough
and the Hertfordshire County Council's scheme of treatment by chiropodists in private
practice continued.
The service was supplemented by work undertaken on behalr or the
Authority by voluntary bodies.