Nursery World - Rural areas face pressure for more childcare training

Access to childcare training will become an increasingly crucial problem for rural areas if the forthcoming changes in regulation bring more stringent qualification requirements, Scotland's leading children's agency has warned. Julia Nelson, Children in Scotland's development officer for rural childcare, told a Glasgow seminar on the future for rural childcare services last week that training was a key issue which would need to be addressed. 'We did a survey of training and delivery methods last year, and that seemed to be saying that the training providers would provide peripatetic training, but I'm not sure that's everybody's experience,' she told Nursery World Scotland. 'In 2002 the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care comes in, and they might well demand that everybody has a certain level or can prove they're working towards it, so it's going to be important that everybody should have access.'

Julia Nelson, Children in Scotland's development officer for rural childcare, told a Glasgow seminar on the future for rural childcare services last week that training was a key issue which would need to be addressed. 'We did a survey of training and delivery methods last year, and that seemed to be saying that the training providers would provide peripatetic training, but I'm not sure that's everybody's experience,' she told Nursery World Scotland. 'In 2002 the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care comes in, and they might well demand that everybody has a certain level or can prove they're working towards it, so it's going to be important that everybody should have access.'

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