VIKKI GERMAN is a play and activities co-ordinator for Shooting Star Chase hospice. She manages activities for young people aged up to 21, but mainly for under-fives in the hospice’s daycare setting in Middlesex.
‘I arrive at 9am. We have up to seven spaces for children staying in the hospice, as well as day users. We have a meeting to discuss which children are coming, their needs and what activities we’ll do. Between 9.30am and 10am the children arrive.
‘The criteria for children to come to the hospice is having a life-threatening or life-limiting condition. A high percentage have a disability. Children staying in the hospice might be here for three or four days of respite care, while daily attendees come weekly. We open four days a week – on Friday we plan the week ahead. We have to consider carefully which children come on which day. We want the calmer children on different days from those that are more active.
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