Nursery World - Care regulation bodies to set up shop in Dundee

* The two new 'watchdog' bodies which are to regulate Scotland's childcare services and practitioners are to be based in Dundee, first minister Henry McLeish announced last week. The Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care, which is to oversee all care services, and the Scottish Social Services Council, which will register care workers, including those in early years, will set up shop in a Dundee HQ which will house more than 160 staff. Fifty new jobs will be created, and the others will involve staff transferring from other parts of Scotland.

The Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care, which is to oversee all care services, and the Scottish Social Services Council, which will register care workers, including those in early years, will set up shop in a Dundee HQ which will house more than 160 staff. Fifty new jobs will be created, and the others will involve staff transferring from other parts of Scotland.

Mr McLeish said it demonstrated the Scottish Executive's policy of looking to base important new organisations away from Edinburgh.

Drew McCanney, Fife council's senior inspector for under-eights and a committee member of the National Association of Inspection and Registration Officers (Scotland), said that while he thought many officers welcomed the move it was only one piece of the jigsaw and they needed more information.

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