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DAY NURSERIES
The borough has two day nurseries. These are Fairmead, Ewell Road,
Tolworth (42 places) and Canbury Park Road, Kingston (46 places).
Admission to day nurseries is restricted to the following priority
categories:
1. Where the mother is the sole wage earner.
2. Where there is sickness in the family or where home
conditions exist which are likely to prejudice seriously
the health of the child.
3. Where, upon consideration of individual circumstances,
it appears to the Council that admission is necessary
in the interests of the child.
The nursery staff have assisted in caring for six handicapped young
children for a few sessions weekly, so as to relieve mothers of some responsibility.
This has proved to be a great asset to both mothers and children.
Other children in the nursery have also benefitted by wanting to be helpful
and assisting in the care of disabled children.
The nursery staff have also given great assistance to mothers of
babies experiencing feeding difficulties and on several occasions have
accepted babies into the nursery for a day and supervised mothers with the
feeds.
All children are under supervision by the medical staff of the
department. During the year two nursery students completed their training
and obtained the N.N.E.B. certificate.