Open day at Dawradurella Childcare Centre in Kalkara

Child-care services have become a key factor in helping couples to combine family life and employment, enabling the family to maintain a decent standard of living and enhancing equal opportunities for women. Access to childcare has also been shown in a number of countries to be essential in effectively supporting single parent households. Professional childcare also facilitates the development of a child's social skills and intellectual development, through structured play in a warm and secure environment.

In recognition of the above, "Dawradurella" Childcare Centre, in Kalkara, will be opening on the 1st June 1998, to offer childcare services to children between the ages of one and three, whose parents both work or who come from a single parent family where the parent is in gainful employment. The Centre is a pilot partnership between the Parliamentary Secretariat for Women's Rights and the Kalkara Local Council. It is supervised by a multidisciplinary Board of Management and run by staff who are trained and qualified in childcare.

The Board of Management will be holding an Open Day at "Dawradurella" Childcare Centre, in Bighi Complex, Kalkara, next Sunday, 17th May 1998 between 10.30am and 5.00pm. Interested parents are invited to view the premises and to meet Board members and the Centre Head Carer.

Applications for the service may also be made at the Open Day. In considering applications, preference shall be given to children living in Kalkara or the vicinity, though all interested parents are welcome to apply. As from the 1st June, the Centre will be open from Monday to Friday, between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m., though all efforts will be made to meet parents' needs. Further details may be obtained at the Open Day next Sunday.