Want to get your career moving? How about working on a playbus? Patricia Slatcher gets on board to see what the job involves
They are big, bright and bundles of fun. Playbuses are one obvious answer to child provision problems, but there's not nearly enough of them. The National Playbus Association (NPA) has 250 voluntary sector mobile projects registered, but only 70 operate within the early years field.
This doesn't account for those run by local authorities or individual community groups. But demand still outstrips supply. 'Lack of funding holds back growth,' says the NPA's quality development project officer, Judy Greenan. 'But we are seeing increased interest now from Sure Start partnerships, so the potential for actual growth is there.'
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