Use us or lose us, say Sparwood childcare centres
Not-for-profit childcare providers are portent two licensed centres in Sparwood could close if attendance rates don’t take a new lease on life.
Sparwood Children’s Centre for infant toddlers is time closed and Kid Zone before and after school care centre is at jeopardy of closure because not enough kids are attending.
Kid Zone manager Serina Paul and Sparwood Children’s Core president Jackie Carpenter are asking parents to admit them how they can attract business back again.
“I only hear the positive feedback,” said Paul. “But we now only have five children a day – some time ago we had 19 after school and up to 25 in a day.
“I would rather have people tell me if there is anything undesirable with how we are doing things so that we can fix it, instead of just having to detailed without understanding why.
Sparwood Children’s Centre, which opened as a not-for-profit mankind in 1976, closed temporarily in September after seeing numbers at three children per day – well below the minimum of eight per day they needed to strengthen afloat. The society directors hope to reopen in January.