The number of settings 'unlikely' or 'very unlikely' to offer the 1,140 hours of funded childcare scheme for three- and four-year-olds, has risen from 24 per cent last year to 46 per cent.
The percentage of settings that would get involved with the scheme, which comes in from 2020, has fallen since last year when 51 per cent said that they were 'likely/very likely' to take part, to just 30 per cent this year.
Findings from the NDNA 2018 Nursery Survey - Scotland show that funding is the biggest barrier to offering the extended hours. Just 7 per cent of respondents said that they could offer the full 1,140 hours on the funding rate they receive for the current system of 600 hours of early learning and childcare.
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