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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 6. April 2 1979

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A full time creche would cost, at a conservative estimate, $30 a week to each parent. Very few students would be able to pay more than they do at the moment. Yet the demand for a longer term creche still exists, there is a proposal for a 'staff creche' to cater for children of parents who work at university and in [unclear: same] way that staff may use the creche once the student demand has been satisfied, students would be able to use the staff creche once staff demand had been satisfied. This is however not a confirmed proposition and we are still faced with a situation where the demand for creche care (there are 15 children on the waiting list of the creche) is not filled by what is available. Some pressure would be relieved by the staff creche but by no means all.

The creche has several options (dependent upon money). It can expand continuing along the same lines catering for a large number of children but only on a short term basis. Or the creche can seek to establish an alternative full day/half day creche care center elsewhere on campus. This would of course take an enormous amount of money and not one that the student parents alone would be able to provide.

Now whether or not there is enough creche care may not affect you directly but it is a student service and as a student service concerns all students at Victoria. It is important that we support all student services to both improve and expand them. The students for whom this particular service is critical to the continuation of their university studies need the support of all other students.

Victoria Quade (Womens Rights Officer)