Parents seeking some respite while doing business or shopping in the central city can leave their children at the new short term Mini Me child minding centre at the High Street Anchorage Centre. The centre provides a place where parents can leave their children in good care for an hour or so. It embraces the young and old in a communal place.
The Mini Me child minding centre will open initially on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Children can be left for up to two hours. The cost is a just gold coin donation.
Staff working in the centre will be experienced, police vetted, child care minders. The centre has been fortunate to attract students from Hutt Valley High School. They are students who have expressed an interest in pursuing a career in early childhood education through the school’s Gateway Programme.
This is a double benefit for the community, as the Anchorage facility provides a pathway for building a career for the six Hut Valley High students who will start with the programme from today.
Further support of the facility is being provided by the Montessori School at Avalon where the group has a facility at the Avalon Assembly of God.
Mayor of Lower Hutt Ray Wallace is pictured cutting the ribbon to open the child minding centre at the Anchorage in High Street with manager Tracey Pomare at left.
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