An appeal on behalf of THE SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND
NURSERY SCHOOLS COMMITTEE by FLORA ROBSON
This Committee was formed in 1932 to help the small children of unemployed people by building nursery schools in ' depressed '. places, both in the Special Areas and outside. A trained superintendent with several helpers is in charge of each forty children, who attend elementary schools, with a clean bill of health.
For the last two years the Commissioner for the Special Areas_has helped generously with the costs of new buildings, but the Nursery Schools Committee has to provide the balance of the costs and running expenses-in some cases for a time; in other cases, particularly in South Wales, permanently.
There are now nine nurseries. One of them, for sixty children, has a waiting list of 192 children. Two nurseries have already been extended to meet the demand, extensions are scheduled for another, and two new nurseries will open in September.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]