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Town Clerk highlights the need for additional City Day Care Services

Oct 07, 2015 News

Town Clerk of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC), Mr.   Royston King, has highlighted the need for additional Municipal Day Care Services.

During a recent discourse with the staff of the Day Care facilities, King stressed the importance of the Day Care Services to the citizens of Georgetown. He noted that the services contribute and aid the social and economic functions of the family.

According to the Town Clerk, the Day Care assistance plays a crucial role in influencing the minds of the young.

As such, he called on the employees of the M&CC Day Care centres to use the opportunity to impart core values such as discipline, respect, obedience and team work into the children who they nurture and care for in the absence of their parents.

King related that while it is a popular belief that the Municipality Day Care Services should be closed, since it has to be subsidized by the City Council, he believes that services provided by the Council should be extended to accommodate more children and to help parents in need of these services.

He implored the staff to give of their best, “it is important to deliver a service of excellence.”

The Georgetown M&CC currently manages Day Care facilitates at Festival City, North Ruimveldt; Bourda, Charlestown, East Ruimveldt and Industrial Site. The total enrollment at all five of the Day Care Centres stands at approximately 280.

The South Road (Bourda, Georgetown) Day Care Centre was the first to open in 1933, to facilitate Maternal and Child Welfare Services to the citizens of Georgetown.

It was established as a place for the care of the children of domestic servants and remained the only child care facility for over four decades. However, with the election of Beryl Simon as Mayor more emphasis was placed on Child Care and a second centre was opened at East Ruimveldt in 1974.

In 1983 under the Mayorship of Mavis Benn another Day Care centre was opened in Charlestown.

Children of the Day Care are subdivided into age groups. Their activities include: routine resting, eating, health checks, structure and unstructured plays for early stimulation. Parents are also organized into parent/staff committees to help organize and implement programmes for children or the development of the centres.

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