Work with early years children in the UK
Following the establishment of the Emergency Open Air Nurseries Committee in 1933, the Save the Children Fund (SCF) became a prominent innovator in nursery provision and by 1939 they were running 11 nurseries in the UK, supported by the Board of Education. During the Second World War, the Fund expanded this work and established residential nurseries for evacuated children, and day centres for children of working mothers.
Much of SCF’s later work in the UK derived from the success of these early nurseries, including the creation of hospital playgroups, which were a direct expansion of their pioneering playgroup programme, the establishment of family centres, and the creation of the Building Blocks Programme, later the Equality Learning Centre, which provided support and guidance for the holistic education of under-fives.
Image: This newscutting details the expansion of SCF’s playgroups into hospitals. Finding number: SCF/HW/4/PLG/7/8
Work with early years children in the UK
Following the establishment of the Emergency Open Air Nurseries Committee in 1933, the Save the Children Fund (SCF) became a prominent innovator in nursery provision and by 1939 they were running 11 nurseries in the UK, supported by the Board of Education. During the Second World War, the Fund expanded this work and established residential nurseries for evacuated children, and day centres for children of working mothers.
Much of SCF’s later work in the UK derived from the success of these early nurseries, including the creation of hospital playgroups, which were a direct expansion of their pioneering playgroup programme, the establishment of family centres, and the creation of the Building Blocks Programme, later the Equality Learning Centre, which provided support and guidance for the holistic education of under-fives.
Image: This newscutting details the expansion of SCF’s playgroups into hospitals. Finding number: SCF/HW/4/PLG/7/8