We are pioneers
A large number of facilities and services now run by the state and other organisations were pioneered by Cape Town Child Welfare:
- Maternal and child health clinics, known as Infant Life Bureaus, later taken over by the City Council
- Remedial and dental clinics
- A mothercraft training centre / dietetic hospital for nurses which operation until 1975
- Bonnytoun and Tenderten Places of Safety
- The Maitland Cottage Hospital
- Barkley House Training College for pre-primary teachers
- The Cape Town Child Welfare for Autistic Children as well as clinics for mentally retarded children from which the Cape Mental Health Society developed.
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