Now is a good time to be in the nursery sector in Scotland. Those operators who have stuck with their businesses through thick and thin are now seeing a combination of circumstances which must bring a smile to their faces.
There is no doubt that early years provision businesses have, like other commercial concerns in recent years, been buffeted by economic storms. A recovery in the sector has been hampered by a lack of readily available finance and by regulation.
The regulatory regime of the National Care Standards, which sets out what users should expect when using services, may have been seen as an imposition in its early iterations, but it is now seen as a positive and is widely accepted.
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