| Description | Minutes of a Working Party set up to examine the present and future demand for Day Nursery facilities, how these should be provided, and by whom they should be provided. Membership consisted of Professor F. W. Shotton (chair); Professor W. H. Trethowan; Mrs R. B. Hunter (wife of the Vice-Chancellor); Dr R. H. Bolton (University Medical Officer), and two lay members of the University
Minutes of the first meeting of the Working Party give details about the establishment and development of the Day Nursery from 1967 onwards in its accommodation at Oakfield Road, its clients, supervision and staff, and finance. There is also comparison with nursery provision at other Universities, estimates of future running costs, and mention of the likely development of National Union of Students policy on the provision of day nurseries
Other papers of the Working Party largely consist of material relating to the survey of parents using the Day Nursery, and this includes copies of the survey and of the letter sent to parents setting out the position of the University and demands on University funds, and asking for views, together with statistics about those using the facilities, giving the names of current users and those on the waiting list; and analysis of completed surveys, mostly focusing on quantitative data.
Papers include a copy of the report of the Day Nursery Working Party, and a copy of the report of the Senate to the Finance and General Purposes Committee in July 1971 which recommended that the Working Party report be approved. The report sets out recommendations for the future management of the Day Nursery, and that fees should be charged, but that parents who were registered students should have the opportunity of being granted a loan of not more than 50% of the total fee, to be repayable after graduation, but these loans would not be available to casual users of the facilities |