Dagenham’s Rainbow Playgroup
This pre-school children of started thier Dagenham Mental Health.
The group consi^teLoriginally of about a doj| ?jpldren where one parent pceiving psychiatric out-pa$| treatment or where therlFWas stress The playgroup?which is open five mornings a week (including school holidays)?now has some twenty-five children, CONTINUED OVERLEAF looked after by two full-time paid helpers and a rota of mothers who help on a voluntary basis.
The range of children in the group has widened considerably over the three years. It now includes a number of children from the area, who were not referred by any welfare agency but whose parents simply asked if their children might join. One or two mentally handicapped children have also joined.
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