We provide education and care for children under school age. Some nurseries provide out of school childcare facilities like breakfast and after school childcare.

We offer a variety of provision. Those in schools generally offer part-time places with a few providing flexible places on a school-term basis. Others cater for 0-5 year olds, making available full-time or extended day places on an all-year round basis.

The nurseries are either funded or managed by:

• Stirling Council
• individual owners
• private companies
• voluntary organisations in partnership with us

All nurseries aim to work with parents and support may be available from some of them, especially those funded by Stirling Council.

Children’s Services already engages in a successful range of partnerships with parents, voluntary and private early years providers both in the planning and delivery of services.
We wish to continue and to improve these partnership arrangements where possible.

It is essential that all early years services establish a quality framework that supports

• self-evaluation
• rigorous planning and review procedures
• continuous improvement
• enables all establishments to set quality standards in consultation with all stakeholders