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Men in Childcare - Balancing act

SFC policy and analysis officer Alison Malcolm explains how the Scottish Funding Council is tackling gender imbalance

The gender chasm in childcare – where just 2 per cent of early years practitioners are men – has long been talked about. Now there are plans to do something about it. In Scotland (which incidentally has no record of any male childminders), there are ambitious plans for improvements in gender imbalances in both directions at the country’s colleges and universities.

The Scottish Funding Council (SFC), which invests around £1.5 billion of public money each year, has embarked on a programme for colleges to address gender imbalance. The initiative, which will be mapped in SFC’s first Gender Action Plan, also includes university undergraduates where males, especially those from a deprived background, are currently under-represented.

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