One-Parent Families Scotland (OPFS) set up its first 'sitter' service in Dundee three years ago. It also has a pilot scheme in Glasgow and recently launched a third sitter service in North Lanarkshire with the local early years partnership and One Plus, Scotland's largest lone-parent organisation.
The schemes are being used as a model for services planned by Bristol Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership and by Bradford Gingerbread.
OPFS director Sue Robertson said at least 12 local authorities in other parts of the UK had been in touch to find out how the system works.
The Dundee and North Lanarkshire schemes supply carers for working and student parents in the child's home between 7am and 10.30pm seven days a week.
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