Childminders, home based day care and young children's transitions

Dunlop, Aline-Wendy; Rayna, Sylvie and Garnier, Pascale, eds. (2017) Childminders, home based day care and young children's transitions. In: Transitions dans la petite enfance (Transitions in early childhood). Petite enfance et éducation / Early childhood and education, 3 . PIE Peter Lang, Brussels. ISBN 9782807602694 (https://doi.org/10.3726/b11139)

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Abstract

In the changing political context of early learning and childcare in Scotland it is important to gather knowledge in order to understand the work of childminders and to make it more visible. The small scale scoping study presented here seeks to explore the role played, in Scotland, by childminders as they welcome and care for young children. In Scotland there are currently 6,102 people registered as childminders to provide day care in their own homes: they provide for 34,600 children (Care Inspectorate, 2015). Many of these childminders (about 80%) are members of the Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA). Their work is equivalent to that of day-carers and home-based carers in other countries. Typically, the children who benefit from their services have working parents who often choose this form of home-based care as the next-best choice to having their children at home.

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Dunlop, Aline-Wendy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9268-0178; Rayna, Sylvie and Garnier, Pascale
  • Item type:Book Section
    ID code:59668
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    31 January 2017
    Published
    21 December 2016
    Accepted
    Notes:This is the author accepted manuscript of a chapter accepted for publication in S. Rayna, & P. Garnier (Eds.), Transitions dans la petite enfance (Transitions in early childhood). Brussels: PIE Peter Lang. The definitive published version can be found at http://www.peterlang.com/
    Subjects:Education > Special aspects of education
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:01 Feb 2017 11:57
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 15:08
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/59668
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