The Scottish Childminding Association says 34% of carers have left the profession since 2016.
The SCMA said more than 1,900 childminding businesses and 11,000 places had also been lost in the past six years."Two years ago, SCMA also warned that we had the makings of a workforce crisis. That crisis is now here," he said. "Shortages of childminders are being experienced all around Scotland.'Not sustainable'"This affects all providers but it affects childminders more because they are predominantly sole workers," he said.
He added that the benefits of having a childminder were that they were more flexible, they catered for babies to 12-year-olds and older children with special needs.The benefits of having a childminder are said to include their flexibility and the age ranges of children they can look after "There are just not enough hours to fit it all in so although I'm doing a job I love, I'm having to take a day out to do the paperwork so it doesn't impact on my family at the weekends.
As part of the audit, 82% of childminders who responded said there had been a "very significant" or "significant" increase in paperwork, with many doing an extra five hours of form-filling every week. He added that his organisation had "piloted a supported model of childminder recruitment in remote and rural areas, which is successfully recruiting childminders in areas others have not been able to", adding that it now needed to be scaled up.
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