Nursery World - NDNA seals deal for Scottish providers ahead of childcare expansion

The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has partnered with Scotland’s association of councils to draw up principles of working together that local authorities and providers must adhere to.

The move is in reaction to concerns from NDNA’s members delivering funded places about the lack of partnership working with some Scottish local authorities, and that they were being excluded from pilots of the expanded Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) offer.

NDNA Scotland has agreed partnership principles regarding the expansion of ELC for three- and four-year-olds with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), which rises to 1,140 hours from 2020.

The nine principles of working have been laid out in a document, approved by heads of all 32 local authorities in Scotland. The principles cover transparency, accountability and communications between councils and providers.

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