Selangor Appeal Board Issue1 - JPBD Selangor

VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 [SABLR/1/1/2011, MAC]
The first reason is unsubstantiated and fallacious. The second reason is irrational.
The Board holds that Application should have been approved. As we are in full agreement
with the Appellant’s contentions, we state our reasons:-
THE MODUS OPERANDI OF DAY-CARE CENTRES
The Appellant testified that day-care centres of the type involved in the case before the
Appeal Board operate along the following lines:
i. To provide reliable care for primary school-age (7 to 11 years) children who attend
school for half the day while both parents are at work for the whole day or, for any
reason, are unable to look after their children for part of the day, including the periods
of going to school or returning from school.
ii.
For those children attending the morning school session the children are delivered
directly to school by their parents. After school in the afternoon the children are
collected and walked to the Centre in a procession, escorted by two staff members of
the Centre. In the evening their parents arrived at the Centre to fetch them home.
iii. For those children who attend the afternoon session the children are delivered in the
morning to the Centre by their parents (or by other arrangements) and left to the care
of the Centre. When the time comes to go to school, two staff members of the Centre
walk the children to school in a procession. After school the children are fetched
directly from the school by the parents.
iv. During the hours the children are in the Centre, they are provided with:
a) a meal
b) supervision with their homework
c) a bath and use of toilet facilities
d) emergency care (taken to see a doctor in case of sudden illness)
It should be noted that in the afternoon no parent of any of the children at the Centre is
anywhere near the Centre while parking congestion is still occurring in the streets around
the Centre. The Respondent should have noted this fact.
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