There have been concerns that some private settings, which havepartnership status and can, therefore, access grants from the Scottishgovernment to cover the cost of free nursery education sessions, havenot met criteria laid down by the council.
Margaret Doran, the city council's executive director of education,indicated that the purpose of the council inspections, carried out inaddition to the statutory inspections by the Scottish Care Commission,were not aimed at reducing the number of partnership nurseries.
She said, 'This is about improving the quality of all the nurseries inGlasgow, including partnership nurseries. We want to identify thequality of education and care provided by our partnership nurseries andwork with them to improve it where necessary.'
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