Services

SPPA has been providing direct support and information and advice to providers of childcare services for almost 40 years.

Local authorities from regions across Scotland, several in conjunction with the Local Childcare Partnership, provide funding to allow SPPA to deliver local services. A number of local authorities also provide funding which allows SPPA to deliver specific project work.

Since 1998, the year of the Scottish Executive’s Green Paper on Scottish childcare in the early years, SPPA has been developing a wide range of direct support services.

These services include:

• Development Officer support – team of development staff working in partnership with local authority staff located in a geographical area providing direct support to parent led committees in the areas of management

• Pre-3 Development Officer support – as above but targeting the very young and forging developmental links with local 0 – 5yrs provision

• Play Development Officer support – team of full time development staff targeting the most vulnerable in society via social inclusion agenda (Surestart Funded)

• Direct Support Service – provision of a development officer to absorb the management tasks on behalf of parent led committees, often across a cluster of groups (cluster management)

Staffing

SPPA currently employees in the region of 45 Development staff across Scotland line managed by a team of 4 Service Managers who have specific geographical responsibility.