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At present, the State offers two types of pre-school provision. Nursery schools, as recommended by Plowden Report in 1967, accomodate children of three years and over, usually on a part-time basis.
1972 Act 'Education: A Framework for Expansion' created a further 25,000 full-time places.
sdiction of the local Social Services Departments and here the emphasis is ren of all ages. There are 23,828 day nursery places at present time with children usually attending full time Day nurseries are almost totally staffed with nursery nurses and a sliding scale of charges is made to parents.
time basis and closing in school holidays sery places are difficult to find and always have long waiting lists.
ernment The Urban Aid Programme in 1968 created 24,000 full-time places in nursery schools and the Tory Government's Day nurseries come under the jurion the physical care of pre-school childBoth these provisions are inadequate.
Nursery schools, being usually on a partare useless to working mothers. Day nurones.