Nursery World - Parents praise childminders

Childminders top the league table for different types of childcare as far as parents in Scotland are concerned, according to a survey published by the Scottish Executive last week. No less than 96 per cent of parents who had used a childminder during the past week rated them as very good, while 88 per cent of parents using nursery classes and 70 per cent of those using private day nurseries rated those forms of care as very good.

No less than 96 per cent of parents who had used a childminder during the past week rated them as very good, while 88 per cent of parents using nursery classes and 70 per cent of those using private day nurseries rated those forms of care as very good.

Sample size made the results for local authority nursery centres and playgroups statistically unreliable, but the former were rated very good by about 90 per cent of parents and the latter by about 70 per cent.

Generally, the findings of the survey, Parents' Demand for Childcare in Scotland, carried out by the National Centre for Social Research, send out a reassuring message to childcarers across the board, with 84 per cent of those who used formal providers rating them as very good.

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