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Sitter services supply fails to meet demand
By Lindsay Clark,
Nursery World,
20 November 2003
Sitter services are inadequate to meet demand from parents and suffer from long-term funding uncertainty, research for the Scottish Executive has found. A study funded by the Scottish Executive found that sitter services, which offer home-based childcare from morning to evening seven days a week, have benefited parents needing childcare to allow them to work unsociable hours as well as those needing a respite from caring for disabled children. But demand has far outstripped supply.
Sitter services are inadequate to meet demand from parents and suffer from long-term funding uncertainty, research for the Scottish Executive has found. A study funded...
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