A Scottish Executive spokesperson confirmed that the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care, which takes over regulation from 1 April, would pay for childminders' criminal records checks and in time would also pay for checks on other adults in their homes.
However, other providers, managers and employees will have to pay for the checks themselves unless their employer decides to reimburse them, even if the Commission countersigns their application. The fee for a check is likely to be around 12.
Maggie Simpson, national development officer for the Scottish Childminding Association, said, 'This is very welcome. In my response to the consultation on this I said that anybody going into childminding was effectively discriminated against if they had a partner and four adult children living at home and had to pay the fees for all of them.
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