Caroline Flint visits Buttons
Open Day/Leaving Party Friday 3 September 2-3pm

2 September 2004

Don Valley MP Caroline Flint will be joining children and staff at the Buttons Day Nursery Open Day on Friday 3 September.

This is the first open day at Buttons Day Nursery, a venture run by Cindy Shaw and Louise Hunston, which has been open for five months. The Leaving Party is for the 12 children who have been with the nursery since March and are moving on to school.

Said Caroline Flint: "Cindy and Louise have shown great enterprise in opening Buttons Day Nursery. They have created employment for 14 people and shown that in Edlington there is growing demand for childcare for working parents or parents attending college."

Buttons has had support from the Doncaster Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership which is charged by the Government to help meet our childcare needs in every community.

Caroline said: "The success of Buttons Day Nursery shows that the Government is helping local businesses to help working parents, creating new jobs in childcare and giving parents support through the childcare tax credit to find affordable, quality childcare for their children. I wish Cindy, Louise and all of their staff every success in the future."

Buttons is a 50-place day-nursery which opened in March. Eight out of ten children attending Buttons come from Edlington.

Buttons also runs a 24-place after school club/holiday play scheme at the Edlington Family Centre.

The picture shows: Front l to r Kennedy Cousins (age 2) on the knee of Cindy Shaw Business Manager; Caroline Flint, Louise Hunston, Childcare Manager, with Taylor cousins (age 1) on her knee. Back row is Lesley Barrer with Aimee Lou Bonar (age 1) and Claire Gilligan with Jordan Leach (age 2).