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Childcare providers should find it easier to access funding thanks to stronger links between the childcare sector and the business community, a seminar organised by the Scottish Executive heard last week. Bob Shanks, development manager for Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), told the seminar in Perth that his organisation would be operating strategic agreements with all the childcare partnerships in the Highlands and Islands from April 2003.

Bob Shanks, development manager for Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), told the seminar in Perth that his organisation would be operating strategic agreements with all the childcare partnerships in the Highlands and Islands from April 2003.

He said HIE had been funding a range of childcare activities since 1993, and these providers had sometimes ended up dealing with as many as 20 different bodies in order to accumulate all the funding they required.

Under new arrangements, childcare partnerships would be able to provide a single point of entry for most funding applications.

Mr Shanks said, 'Our new proposed way of working involves making a strategic agreement with each of our childcare partnerships and providing funding to enable them to contact the childcare providers directly.'

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