Child safety study

Press, 24 March 1988, Page 9

Child safety study

PA j Wellington !'' | 7 ■ The (Government has set up a working party on out-of-school care, the Minister oDEdiication, Mr Lange, announced yester-; day- ; - j ! The move came after a meeting between Mr Lange I and delegations from the Kindergarten Teachers’ Association and the Early ( Childhood Workers' Union. Mr Lange [saW( both groups had expressed con-

cern about jthe lack! of safeguards available I for caring for bhildrpn (between the time they were at'school and, when they were with their parents. Membership of the working party would be drawn from' the departments of Education, Internal Affairs | and Social. Welfare. Thq party would look at the I provision of out-of-school) | care, ) the regulations needed to control it, and Jvho would be responsible for it.:)

Major Ern ; Johnson, the Salvation Army’s! public realtions officer, tunes into Plains FM, the community access radio, after a recording session yesterday; J ; ( j In the background is| Mr Mark | Fahey, a station volunteer. I The Salvation Army will have a regular fortnightly 30-rhinutes slot on j the station’s programme, beginning on Monday at 6 p.m; Major Johnson said the programme, (“Sounds and Salvation,”) would (feature! a “magazine format” of interviews] gospel music] ana teaching hints for!

Sunday School lessons. News of the international army’s multiracial! training college in South Africa will also be beard in j one programme. Community support for the radio station I had been | “great,” said i the programme director, Ms Sarah Ayton. (So far (more than seven groups of different interests had signed up for regular I contributions to the three-hour : broadcasts, she said. The station is run by the ; Canterbury Communications Trust which leases its premises from Christchurch