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Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “Early Learning and Childcare: Progress on delivery of the 1,140 hours expansion”
Meeting date: 5 October 2023
Colin Beattie
What are those ways?
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “Early Learning and Childcare: Progress on delivery of the 1,140 hours expansion”
Meeting date: 5 October 2023
Colin Beattie
Is each local authority doing the same thing and going through the same evaluation so that a national picture can be collated?
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “Early Learning and Childcare: Progress on delivery of the 1,140 hours expansion”
Meeting date: 5 October 2023
Colin Beattie
All the work that you are talking about is at a local level. I do not see how that feeds into any policy.
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “Early Learning and Childcare: Progress on delivery of the 1,140 hours expansion”
Meeting date: 5 October 2023
Colin Beattie
What I am interested in finding out is how children are able to input into Government policy.
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “Early Learning and Childcare: Progress on delivery of the 1,140 hours expansion”
Meeting date: 5 October 2023
Colin Beattie
I ask the COSLA witness to come in. That sounds fairly positive. Are there any downsides?
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “Early Learning and Childcare: Progress on delivery of the 1,140 hours expansion”
Meeting date: 5 October 2023
Colin Beattie
I want to explore one or two areas, the first of which is on deferred entry to primary 1 and paragraph 20 of the Audit Scotland report. Ten councils were running a pilot and a pilot evaluation report on access to funded early learning and childcare for eligible children who defer entry to primary 1 was published in June. What action is the Scottish Government taking in response to that report?
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “Early Learning and Childcare: Progress on delivery of the 1,140 hours expansion”
Meeting date: 5 October 2023
Colin Beattie
We have to remember that the Auditor General’s report makes it clear that we do not have national data on the demand for childcare, which to me seems a very basic piece of data that should be collected. If it is being collected locally to suit local conditions, that is fine, but how do you collate that and make sense of it nationally? That is clearly not happening. However positively you may put this, at the end of the day, the national data is not there.
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “Early Learning and Childcare: Progress on delivery of the 1,140 hours expansion”
Meeting date: 5 October 2023
Colin Beattie
Without information on demand, you will not be able to do workforce planning, proper budgeting and so on, and that is clearly what the comments in the report are aimed at. When do you expect to have national data on the demand for childcare?
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “Early Learning and Childcare: Progress on delivery of the 1,140 hours expansion”
Meeting date: 5 October 2023
Colin Beattie
How are you listening to the views of the child?
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “Early Learning and Childcare: Progress on delivery of the 1,140 hours expansion”
Meeting date: 5 October 2023
Colin Beattie
Once again, is that engagement common across all council areas?
