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The Scottish Government and Local Government are committed to increasing funded early learning and childcare (ELC) entitlement to 1140 hours per year from August 2020 for all 3 and 4-year-olds and for eligible 2-year-olds. The expansion is a cornerstone in helping every child to fulfil their potential and to close the poverty-related attainment gap.
As part of the Scottish Government’s Delivery Assurance Team, business analysts and knowledge management officers from the Improvement Service are providing support and constructive challenge to both Scottish Government and local government as they implement their ELC expansion plans. This includes periodic data collection, analysis and reporting on the progress of delivery, alongside targeted Business Analysis to understand challenges and recommend ways to move forward.
With the ELC expansion being implemented in different ways across different local authorities, the range of support and tools can be tailored to suit the forms of challenges being faced locally.
If you have any queries regarding the support we offer or how we could support your council please do not hesitate to get in touch at elc@improvementservice.org.uk.
Publications
Early Learning and Childcare Expansion Delivery Progress (December 2018)
Early Learning and Childcare Expansion Delivery Progress (June 2019)
Early Learning and Childcare Expansion
The Improvement Service (IS) is the national improvement organisation for local government in Scotland.
Our purpose is to help councils and their partners to improve the health, quality of life and opportunities of all people in Scotland through community leadership, strong local governance and the delivery of high quality, efficient local services.
Through a series of principles, the IS works to promote improvement in local government and among its partners to support them improve outcomes and reduce the outcome gaps within populations and within areas.
The IS delivers a range of products and services that support CPPs to build their capacity to deliver the public service reform agenda.
The IS has a non-partisan role to support all elected members in Scotland.
- Economic Outcomes Programme
- Fairer Scotland Duty
- Improving Outcomes in Money Advice
- National Co-ordinator - Child Poverty Action Reports
- Organisational Development
- Planning for Place Programme
- Roads Collaboration Programme
- Spatial Information Service
- Tackling Violence Against Women
- Welfare Advice and Health Partnerships
- Workforce Planning
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As well as news from the Improvement Service other news relevant to local government improvement in Scotland. is also published. The Improvement Service welcomes contributions from Scottish local authorities and partner organisations. If you have a story you would like to share, contact us.
The Improvement Services produces a series of newsletters on a range of subjects, including myaccount, elected members, tellmescotland as well as the main IS newsletter. Subscribe on this page.
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Find out about all the events and activities organised by the Improvement Service or of interest to Scottish local authorities here. If you would like to add an event to this calendar, please contact info@improvementservice.org.uk
You can quickly browse events from the calendar opposite, or go to the events page for full details of all events.
