In some cases local authorities had extended the requirement to partner providers in the private and voluntary sectors as a condition which had to be fulfilled if the provision was to be eligible for public nursery education funding. However, this was not consistent across Scotland.
The Scottish Independent Nurseries' Association welcomed the Executive's decision to drop the requirement as a 'progressive step in making early years education and care mutually interdependent and integrated.'
The GTC's chief executive Matthew MacIver wrote to the Executive's education department last month warning that scrapping the 1956 Scotland Schools Code was 'a retrograde step' which 'devalued' pre-school education.
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