Rural areas face pressure for more childcare training

Access to childcare training will become an increasingly crucial problem for rural areas if the forthcoming changes in regulation bring more stringent qualification requirements, Scotland's leading children's agency has warned. Julia Nelson, Children in Scotland's development officer for rural childcare, told a Glasgow seminar on the future for rural childcare services last week that training was a key issue which would need to be addressed. 'We did a survey of training and delivery methods last year, and that seemed to be saying that the training providers would provide peripatetic training, but I'm not sure that's everybody's experience,' she told Nursery...