Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf announced his plans for extending the funded childcare policy in his first programme for Government speech.
He will accelerate the expansion of the two-year-old offer by starting to phase in families with two-year-olds from next year, focusing on tackling child poverty. This will be subject to families meeting specific criteria and will not be universal yet.
Six local authority areas will be “early adopters” and offer places to children from nine months old.
PVI staff will earn at least £12 an hour from April – Mr Yousaf said that they would provide funding to support PVI providers to do this, which would help with their recruitment issues.
