Tumby Bay Rural Care team celebrates 20 years of care

The Tumby Bay Rural Care team recently celebrated 20 years of providing care for families in the South Australian community of Tumby Bay and surrounding areas.

Opening in October 2002 as an integrated service with the Tumby Bay Kindergarten, Rural Care began with one worker and four children. 

Since then, the program has expanded to run a two-worker program three days a week and a three-worker program two days a week, which enables the centre to provide care for up to 45 children.

Recently, the service extended the inside area of the Rural Care space by building a new room in 2021 and adding an outdoor area for the children to build on the nature play focus of the program, representative Virginia McTaggart shared with local media.

“Our rural care service prioritises care for working or studying families and is the only care facility in Tumby Bay and surrounding areas,” she told Port Lincoln Times. 

Feedback from families is consistently positive about the new spaces, with parents describing it as “accessible with a great layout”.

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