New York State War Council Committee on Child Care, Development, and Protection Mayor's Committee on Child Care for Schenectady…

Arranged by topic.

This series illustrates the daily operation of a local war council's child care committee and its efforts to provide care for the children of working mothers. It documents the problems and successes of promoting the idea of child care and maintaining high quality facilities.

This series details attendance, budgetary matters, salaries, monthly reports, food cost analysis, and interaction with parents at several child care facilities in Schenectady. The weekly attendance records list the school, head teacher, students (alphabetically) and the days attended, and daily totals (dividing students into four categories: full time, lunches only, after school, and Saturday and holiday). Additionally, correspondence and memoranda within this series reveal reasons why parents withdrew their children from day care and the facilities' efforts to operate as cooperative day care centers after government funding ceased.

Microform is available at the New York State Archives. It is unavailable for interlibrary loan due to the presence of restricted records.

This series was originally accessioned as part of boxes 111-127 of old collection #77, accession -71.

Children's attendance records and correspondence with parents regarding children's attendance or behavior are restricted in part pursuant to Personal Privacy Protection Law (Public Officers Law, Art. 6). Use with supervision of archivist.