Provision for Health Care

Abstract

The final area of children’s development investigated in the evaluation study was policy and practice concerning health care, a comparatively neglected topic in studies of pre-school provision and services. The separate development of day nurseries and nursery schools, described in Chapter 1, was paralleled by an administrative division of responsibility for the children’s health care between local authority health and education departments respectively. Traditionally, greater emphasis on physical welfare has been found in day nurseries, which until 1971 were under the direct control of local health departments.