Tag Archives: ChildCare Centre

I saw one such parent today. The kids at the centre were supposed to bring an empty clean bottle for some art lessons. This was communicated to parents via logbook, which parents had to read and sign everyday, and via a piece of notice given to them, placed in the child's school bag. You cannot miss it, unless you never take out stuff from the bag, which is impossible. This communication happened more than two weeks before the child was supposed to bring the bottle. And the parents were reminded again via a second logbook communication just the day before. Impossible for you to miss it. Yet, when the day came, this parent insisted that her child did not know about this, and she was not informed. How could that be! Everyone who heard her knew she was lying, that she didn't even bother to read her child logbook.

With the relentless increases in the cost of water, service and conservancy fees, electricity, gas, childcare, parking, rubbish, university, food and drinks in the last nine months or so – many parents with children in childcare may be struggling to make ends meet.

Finally, in the year 2017, the government is pre-planning for bigger child care centres in new BTOs. The fact that government encouraging more couples to have babies, but no planning done to cater to needs of placing these young children in childcare centres once the parents go back to work shows how in touch the government is to ordinary citizens. A former senior Director for strategic planning at the Ministry of National Development can even say that previous years, if there's an empty void deck space, then they use it to build childcare centre. Now they are going to be pre-designing it. Stand up and clap? What kind of strategic planning is this?