'Understanding Social Enterprise: A Case Study of the Child-Care Sector in Scotland' was conducted by a team from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
Questionnaires focusing on finance and management were sent to 300 voluntary childcare organisations across the country, with a return rate of 81. More than half were single-setting playgroups, followed by out-of-school clubs at 35 per cent.
One of the authors of the report, Declan Jones, director of the Social Enterprise Institute at the university, said, 'We wanted to see how much organisations saw their service as a business rather than a project and we found that the sector was fragile, particularly in a fiscal sense.'
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