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is a combination appropriate to local needs and circumstances,
of nursery schools, nursery classes, day nurseries, and also
organisations of daily guardians administered by the welfare
authority and supervised by their health visitors, using existing
services as a foundation.
Co-operation between Local Education Authorities
and Welfare Authorities.
Since the provision to be made is a combination of
measures, some of which are within the province of the local
education authority and others within that of the welfare
authority, the planning of future arrangements must be undertaken
jointly by the two authorities working in collaboration.
In some Counties and in County Boroughs this should create
no difficulty, since the Council is both the local education
authority and the welfare authority for the whole of its area.
In Counties where the County Council is not the welfare
authority for the whole of the County the County Council
should take the initiative and invite the welfare authorities
to co-operate with the County Council in the preparation of
the scheme.
The first step will be to review the war-time nurseries
now in operation ; to consider, with due regard to the extent
to which women are likely to continue to be required in essential
industries in the area and to the numbers and ages of the
children on the nursery registers and to the suitability of the
premises—
(a) which of these nurseries should continue to be run
under maternity and child welfare powers by the
welfare authority;
(b) which of them should be taken over and run as nursery
schools or nursery classes by the local education
authority ; and
(c) which of them should be closed on the ground that
they are surplus to requirements
The extent to which nurseries which are to be continued as
nursery schools or nursery classes or day nurseries need to be
supplemented, or those which are closed can be replaced, by a
system of registered and supervised daily guardians and/or
by the opening of afternoon creches at maternity and child
welfare centres, should be determined at the same time.