If you walk into a nursery setting in Scotland to be greeted by a male early years worker it's highly likely that Men in Childcare got him there.
Since January 2001, Men in Childcare has been responsible for encouraging more than 130 men into childcare training. They have come from all walks of life - from bank managers to bus drivers and from Banff to the Borders. Very few had ever previously worked in childcare, or even thought that they could.
The project was set up to increase the numbers of men working in the early years sector. It has been astonishingly successful. When Kenny Spence, manager of the project, discovered in 1998 that in the Greater Pilton area of Edinburgh there were more men working in childcare than had ever been the case, he set up a network to recruit more.
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