Positive feedback onchild services

A recent survey by Renfrewshire Council reveals high levels of satisfaction among parents and carers regarding local nursery and childcare services.

Having received more than 700 responses in its consultation, the findings reveal that 85 per cent rated their child’s funded early learning and childcare place with a childminder or at nursery as high-quality.

Similarly, a high percentage of satisfaction also extended to parents and carers using out-of-school care, mapped at 88 per cent.

A total of 83 per cent of parents and carers using outof-school care said it helped them to stay in work, training or study, and nearly 88 per cent of eligible respondents were taking full advantage of the 1,140 hours of early learning and childcare entitlement.

Councillor Emma Rodden, convener of the council’s education and children’s services policy board, said: “Getting feedback from parents and carers about early learning and childcare and out-of-school care services in the area helps us as a local authority to ensure we have the right services in place.

“I would like to thank every person who took part in the consultation.

“This latest data has created a picture of people’s satisfaction with nursery and childcare services and provided vital feedback that officers have acted on, such as the new out-of-school care webpage on the council’s website, complementing the early learning and childcare information we already had available.”

Information on early learning and childcare in Renfrewshire is available on the council’s website.